scholarly journals Using Harmony Search Algorithm for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing

Author(s):  
O. Norouzpour ◽  
N. Jafarzadeh
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2323
Author(s):  
T. Renugadevi ◽  
K. Geetha ◽  
K. Muthukumar ◽  
Zong Woo Geem

Drastic variations in high-performance computing workloads lead to the commencement of large number of datacenters. To revolutionize themselves as green datacenters, these data centers are assured to reduce their energy consumption without compromising the performance. The energy consumption of the processor is considered as an important metric for power reduction in servers as it accounts to 60% of the total power consumption. In this research work, a power-aware algorithm (PA) and an adaptive harmony search algorithm (AHSA) are proposed for the placement of reserved virtual machines in the datacenters to reduce the power consumption of servers. Modification of the standard harmony search algorithm is inevitable to suit this specific problem with varying global search space in each allocation interval. A task distribution algorithm is also proposed to distribute and balance the workload among the servers to evade over-utilization of servers which is unique of its kind against traditional virtual machine consolidation approaches that intend to restrain the number of powered on servers to the minimum as possible. Different policies for overload host selection and virtual machine selection are discussed for load balancing. The observations endorse that the AHSA outperforms, and yields better results towards the objective than, the PA algorithm and the existing counterparts.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjing Li ◽  
Wenhong Du ◽  
Weifeng Tang ◽  
Ying Pan ◽  
Jie Zhou ◽  
...  

In order to solve the problems of traditional harmony search in complex function multiobjective optimization, such as low precision, slow convergence, and easy to fall into local optimum, this article proposes a multiobjective optimization harmony search parallel algorithm based on cloud computing. First, according to the characteristics that the traditional harmony search algorithm uses a single harmony library for storing and processing the memory harmony, and it is divided into multiple harmony sublibraries according to different harmony. At the same time, the roulette selection and dynamic trade-off factor strategies are used for the dynamic setting of harmony memory library value-taking probability, pitch fine-tuning probability, pitch fine-tuning bandwidth, and other parameters which the traditional harmony search algorithm mainly relies on. Then, MapReduce programming model is used to establish Map and Reduce core parallel computing functions, to construct the parallel algorithm of dynamic parameter harmony search based on cloud computing. Finally, the algorithm optimization comparison test is conducted on Hadoop platform and compared with several existing optimal harmony search algorithms, the searching precision of this algorithm is improved by eight orders of magnitude, and the iteration number on the convergence speed is reduced by 6500 times, and the parallel achieves the linear acceleration ratio. Experimental results show that the optimization efficiency of this algorithm is higher than several existing optimal harmony search algorithms.


2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 2412-2417
Author(s):  
Yue-hong LI ◽  
Pin WAN ◽  
Yong-hua WANG ◽  
Jian YANG ◽  
Qin DENG

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