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UNSW Scientists Using AI to Create Elastic Cloud
Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing a computer network that can regulate its consumption of public cloud services.
Credit: University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to build a computer network they say can regulate its own consumption of public cloud services.
The researchers have developed a software controller that could be used by every virtual server instance in the cloud to monitor the performance of server applications. The researchers say the controller relies on a simplified version of reinforcement learning, an AI method more commonly associated with robotics than information technology. If an application's performance becomes critical, the controller will communicate with others on the network and automatically determine how and where to source extra capacity to cope with the load.
"We are trying to automate some of this and we eventually hope that a few years down the line we will have an environment that people can use," says UNSW researcher Srikumar Venugopal.
He also notes the researchers already have created a software infrastructure that does decentralized scaling but it needs to be tested with actual enterprise applications.
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