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Autori principali: Bader, Jonathan, Blumenthal, Edgar, Eckardt, Marten, Krebs, Justus, Witzke, Joel, Wysokinska, Xemena, Aslan, Haci Ismail, Kao, Odej
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18043
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author Bader, Jonathan
Blumenthal, Edgar
Eckardt, Marten
Krebs, Justus
Witzke, Joel
Wysokinska, Xemena
Aslan, Haci Ismail
Kao, Odej
author_facet Bader, Jonathan
Blumenthal, Edgar
Eckardt, Marten
Krebs, Justus
Witzke, Joel
Wysokinska, Xemena
Aslan, Haci Ismail
Kao, Odej
contents In modern distributed systems, efficient resource allocation is a vital aspect to maintain scalability, reduce operational costs, and ensure fast execution even across heterogeneous workloads. Predictive models for resource usage are essential tools for optimizing allocation and preventing system bottlenecks. Predictive memory allocation has asymmetric costs as a key challenge: underallocation causes failures while overallocation wastes memory. We propose a regression method based on a LightGBM and XGBoost ensemble trained to predict high conditional quantiles. To further account for the high cost of underallocations we add a multiplicative safety factor. With our method we are able to reduce the number of under-allocated jobs from 4.17% to 2.89% and average overallocation from 148% to 44.51% on a real-world dataset of build jobs provided by SAP. We further explore the pareto frontier between optimization for underallocation and for overallocation.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Memory Allocation in Distributed Clusters with Predictive Modeling
Bader, Jonathan
Blumenthal, Edgar
Eckardt, Marten
Krebs, Justus
Witzke, Joel
Wysokinska, Xemena
Aslan, Haci Ismail
Kao, Odej
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
In modern distributed systems, efficient resource allocation is a vital aspect to maintain scalability, reduce operational costs, and ensure fast execution even across heterogeneous workloads. Predictive models for resource usage are essential tools for optimizing allocation and preventing system bottlenecks. Predictive memory allocation has asymmetric costs as a key challenge: underallocation causes failures while overallocation wastes memory. We propose a regression method based on a LightGBM and XGBoost ensemble trained to predict high conditional quantiles. To further account for the high cost of underallocations we add a multiplicative safety factor. With our method we are able to reduce the number of under-allocated jobs from 4.17% to 2.89% and average overallocation from 148% to 44.51% on a real-world dataset of build jobs provided by SAP. We further explore the pareto frontier between optimization for underallocation and for overallocation.
title Optimizing Memory Allocation in Distributed Clusters with Predictive Modeling
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18043