2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID)
Modeling the Latency on Production Grids with Respect to the Execution Context
May 19-May 22
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3156-4
In this paper, we study grid jobs submission latency. The latency highly impacts performances on production grids, due to its high values and variations. It is particularly prejudicial for determining the status and expected duration of jobs and it makes outliers detection difficult. In previous work, a probabilistic model of the latency has been presented. It allows to estimate the best timeout value considering agiven distribution of jobs latencies. This timeout value is then used in a job resubmission strategy. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent updating this model with relevant contextual parameters can help to refine the latency estimation. Experiments on the EGEE production grid show thatthe choice of the resource broker or the computing site has astatistically significant influence on the jobs latency. We exploit this contextual information to propose a reliable job submission strategy.
Index Terms:
production grid, latency model
Citation:
Diane Lingrand, Johan Montagnat, Tristan Glatard, "Modeling the Latency on Production Grids with Respect to the Execution Context," ccgrid, pp.753-758, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 2008