Alibaba Group Holding Limited
System, apparatus and method for resource provisioning

Abstract:

A method of resource provisioning including obtaining component metric information of one or more processing nodes, where the one or more processing nodes form a pool of processing nodes managed by the provisioning apparatus. The method also includes obtaining task characteristics of a target task executing on one or more processing nodes of a first set, where the one or more processing nodes of the first set are selected from the pool of processing nodes. The method further includes determining one or more processing nodes of a second set from the pool of processing nodes based on the task characteristics and the component metric information and the step of deploying the target task to the one or more processing nodes in the second set.