Managing asset placement with respect to a distributed computing environment having a set of hosts

• US 10,455,007 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fawcett, Bradley W., Nikolai, Jason A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Nicholas R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Chong G
• Application Number:
  US15/210,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20180020049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 709226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1428 Invoice generation, e.g. customization, lay-out, database processing, algorithms for calculating the bill or formatting invoices as WWW pages invoicing in general G06Q30/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/31 Distributed metering or calculation of charges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/41 Billing record details, i.e. parameters, identifiers, structure of call data record [CDR]

Abstract

Disclosed aspects relate to managing asset placement with respect to a distributed computing environment or a stream computing environment. A set of host computing resource requirement data is detected. The detection is with respect to an asset for placement to the distributed computing environment. The set of host computing resource requirement data is for the asset such as a set of stream operators or a set of processing elements. A set of computing resource profile data for a set of hosts is identified. By comparing the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset and the set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts, an asset placement arrangement is determined. Based on the asset placement arrangement, the asset is established.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing asset placement with respect to a distributed computing environment having a set of hosts, the method comprising:

detecting, with respect to an asset for placement to the distributed computing environment, a set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset, wherein the distributed computing environment includes a stream computing environment and the asset is a rookie in the stream computing environment;

identifying, with respect to the distributed computing environment, a set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts;

comparing, using a determination engine of at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset and the set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts to automatically determine an asset placement arrangement;

establishing, based on the asset placement arrangement, the asset in the distributed computing environment;

monitoring the set of hosts to update the set of computing resource profile data;

updating, based on and in response to monitoring the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data;

analyzing, using the determination engine of the at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data to predict an expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, wherein the expected change would result in not meeting a criterion;

resolving the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data; and

reformulating, based on the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, the asset placement arrangement.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the distributed computing environment includes a stream computing environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the set of hosts is heterogeneous in nature.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the set of hosts has a configuration that is selected from the group consisting of:

a first host having a first operating system and a second host having a second operating system;

a first host having a first version of a first operating system and a second host having a second version of the first operating system; and

a first host having a first hardware architecture and a second host having a second hardware architecture.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset is specified by an application writer.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein comparing the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset and the set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts is performed by the set of hosts, and wherein the set of hosts is a single host.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the asset includes a set of processing elements.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the asset includes a set of stream operators.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reformulating, based on and in response to updating the set of computing resource profile data, the asset placement arrangement; and

relocating, in response to updating the set of computing resource profile data and based on a reformulation of the asset placement arrangement, the asset to a different host of the set of hosts.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the different host has a different operating system and a different hardware architecture.

11. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

preventing, with respect to the asset placement arrangement, placement of the asset on a first host of the set of hosts when a first computing resource profile data for the first host does not achieve the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset; and

initiating, with respect to the asset placement arrangement, placement of the asset to a second host of the set of hosts when a second computing resource profile data for the second host achieves the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the detecting, the identifying, the determining, and the establishing each occur in an automated fashion without user intervention.

13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a stream of tuples to be processed by the set of processing elements operating on the set of hosts; and

processing, using the set of processing elements operating on the set of hosts, the stream of tuples.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

metering use of the asset; and

generating an invoice based on the metered use.

15. A system for managing asset placement with respect to a distributed computing environment having a set of hosts, the system comprising:

a memory having a set of computer readable computer instructions, and a processor for executing the set of computer readable instructions, the set of computer readable instructions including;

detecting, with respect to an asset for placement to the distributed computing environment, a set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset, wherein the distributed computing environment includes a stream computing environment and the asset is a rookie in the stream computing environment;

identifying, with respect to the distributed computing environment, a set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts;

comparing, using a determination engine of at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset and the set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts to automatically determine an asset placement arrangement;

establishing, based on the asset placement arrangement, the asset in the distributed computing environment;

monitoring the set of hosts to update the set of computing resource profile data;

updating, based on and in response to monitoring the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data;

analyzing, using the determination engine of the at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data to predict an expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, wherein the expected change would result in not meeting a criterion;

resolving the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data; and

reformulating, based on the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, the asset placement arrangement.

16. A computer program product for managing asset placement with respect to a distributed computing environment having a set of hosts, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

detecting, with respect to an asset for placement to the distributed computing environment, a set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset, wherein the distributed computing environment includes a stream computing environment and the asset is a rookie in the stream computing environment;

identifying, with respect to the distributed computing environment, a set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts;

comparing, using a determination engine of at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of host computing resource requirement data for the asset and the set of computing resource profile data for the set of hosts to automatically determine an asset placement arrangement;

establishing, based on the asset placement arrangement, the asset in the distributed computing environment;

monitoring the set of hosts to update the set of computing resource profile data;

updating, based on and in response to monitoring the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data;

analyzing, using the determination engine of the at least one host of the set of hosts, the set of computing resource profile data to predict an expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, wherein the expected change would result in not meeting a criterion;

resolving the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data; and

reformulating, based on the expected change to the set of computing resource profile data, the asset placement arrangement.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein at least one of:

the program instructions are stored in the computer readable storage medium in a data processing system, and wherein the program instructions were downloaded over a network from a remote data processing system;

or

the program instructions are stored in the computer readable storage medium in a server data processing system, and wherein the program instructions are downloaded over a network to a remote data processing system for use in a second computer readable storage medium with the remote data processing system.