Computer Science Speaking Skills Talk
— 3:30pm
Location:
In Person
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Reddy Conference Room, Gates Hillman 4405
Speaker:
JALANI WILLIAMS
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Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
https://jalaniw.github.io/
The M/M/k with Deterministic Setup Times
Capacity management, whether it involves servers in a data center, human staff in a call center, or doctors in a hospital, is largely about balancing a resource-delay tradeoff. On the one hand, one would like to turn off servers when not in use (or send home staff that are idle) to save on resources. On the other hand, one wants to avoid the considerable setup time required to turn an off server back on.
In this talk, we describe recent work focused on understanding the delay component of this tradeoff. In particular, we discuss new, tight bounds on the average delay in the M/M/k with Deterministic setup times.
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the CSD Speaking Skills Requirement