RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN PARTIAL FAULT TOLERANT APPLICATIONS

摘要

A method for allocating a set of components of an application to a set of resource groups includes the following steps performed by a computer system. The set of resource groups is ordered based on respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the resource groups. An importance value is assigned to each of the components. The importance value is associated with an affect of the component on an output of the application. The components are assigned to the resource groups based on the importance value of each component and the respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the resource groups. The components with higher importance values are assigned to resource groups with lower failure measures and higher resource capacities. The application may be a partial fault tolerant (PFT) application that comprises PFT application components. The resource groups may comprise a heterogeneous set of resource groups (or clusters).