A Tool for Prioritizing DAGMan Jobs and its Evaluation
| Autor: | Arnold L. Rosenberg, Ian Foster, Michael Wilde, Grzegorz Malewicz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Operations research Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Distributed computing media_common.quotation_subject Grid Computing systems Scheduling (computing) Interdependence Hardware and Architecture System parameters Scheduling theory Software Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Grid Computing. 5:197-212 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9184 1570-7873 |
| Popis: | It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the Grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictability is to schedule job execution in a manner that constantly maximizes the number of jobs that can be sent to workers. A recently developed scheduling theory provides a basis to meet that optimization goal. Intuitively, when the number of such jobs is always large, high parallelism can be maintained, even if the number of workers changes over time in an unpredictable manner. In this paper we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical scheduling tool inspired by the theory. Given a DAGMan input file with interdependent jobs, the tool prioritizes the jobs. The resulting schedule significantly outperforms currently used schedules under a wide range of system parameters, as shown by simulation studies. For example, a scientific data analysis application, AIRSN, was executed at least 13% faster with 95% confidence. An implementation of the tool was integrated with the Condor high-throughput computing system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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