Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Community wisdom tells us that while the cloud early vision promised economy of scale, in practice, renting cloud resources is an expensive business. There are many reasons for this unfortunate state of affairs, some of which can be attributed to non-utilized opportunities. SpotOS is an effort which is aimed to use state of the art tools to help cloud users make better rental choices. In particular, SpotOS enables wider, easier, and better use of spot instances, which are “empty” resources sold at a high discount with the pitfall that they may have to be evacuated in short notice. SpotOS can be viewed as a new kind of a distributed “operating system” which extends the OS traditional tasks by optimizing task allocation to resources, optimizing batch resource rental from the provider, and supporting failover mechanisms. To achieve these goals SpotOS uses advanced modern tools such as optimization algorithms, predictive machine learning, efficient external storage, and stateful task management in distributed environments. The talk will survey the challenges and opportunities in SpotOS.
Speaker: Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
►About the event
Research Day showcases successful research cooperation between Red Hat and academic institutions worldwide and connects researchers with Red Hat engineers, customers, partners, industry representatives, and others interested in research that will impact open source software.
►Are you interested in open source projects we are incubating at Red Hat Research? Visit research.redhat.com to learn more and get involved!
Community wisdom tells us that while the cloud early vision promised economy of scale, in practice, renting cloud resources is an expensive business. There are many reasons for this unfortunate state of affairs, some of which can be attributed to non-utilized opportunities. SpotOS is an effort which is aimed to use state of the art tools to help cloud users make better rental choices. In particular, SpotOS enables wider, easier, and better use of spot instances, which are “empty” resources sold at a high discount with the pitfall that they may have to be evacuated in short notice. SpotOS can be viewed as a new kind of a distributed “operating system” which extends the OS traditional tasks by optimizing task allocation to resources, optimizing batch resource rental from the provider, and supporting failover mechanisms. To achieve these goals SpotOS uses advanced modern tools such as optimization algorithms, predictive machine learning, efficient external storage, and stateful task management in distributed environments. The talk will survey the challenges and opportunities in SpotOS.
Speaker: Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
►About the event
Research Day showcases successful research cooperation between Red Hat and academic institutions worldwide and connects researchers with Red Hat engineers, customers, partners, industry representatives, and others interested in research that will impact open source software.
►Are you interested in open source projects we are incubating at Red Hat Research? Visit research.redhat.com to learn more and get involved!
