Smart Isolation in Large-Scale Production Computing Infrastructures - January 2015

Public Audience
Purpose: To highlight project progress. Information is generally at a higher level which is accessible to the interested public. All information contained in the report (regions 1-3) is a Government Deliverable/CDRL.

PI(s):  Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, William Enck
Researchers: Peipei Wang, Sigmund (Al) Gorski, Ben Andow

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED

• Resilient Architectures - Our current focus is the creation and validation of a taxonomy to study of existing isolation techniques, through which we will identify underlying principles that will lead to the design of next generation smart isolation techniques to support resilient architectures.

PUBLICATIONS
 

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We have created a classification structure to systematize knowledge of existing isolation techniques. At the top level, the classification structure has three aspects (mechanism, policy, practicality).  Each aspect is split into a set of dimensions, and each dimension has a set of categorites.  This classification structure has been applied to a set of 80 papers focused on the topic of isolation.  Results of this classification are under analysis, with the results to appear in a publication under development.
• Identified several intersting directions for future work such as combining security and performance isolation in a unified container service, supporting distributed isolations by inferring root cause culprit component in a distributed system.