Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Technology by Abhinav Maurya ∗ under the guidance of Prof .

This study examines recent studies in automatic control of modern massive data centers that are not amenable to manual control, and outlines the approach taken by [9] in automating the prediction of performance metrics for MapReduce jobs, and in their design of a realistic workload generator for testing MapRed reduce optimizations.