Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'03) Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster of Workstations Hong Kong December 01-December 04 ISBN: 0-7695-2066-9
While previous CPU- or memory-centric load balancing schemes are capable of achieving the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources in a cluster system, the cluster exhibits significant performance drop under I/O-intensive workload conditions due to the imbalance of I/O load. To tackle this problem, we have developed two simple yet effective I/O-aware load-balancing schemes, which make it possible to balance I/O load by assigning I/O intensive sequential and parallel jobs to nodes with light I/O loads. Moreover, the proposed schemes judiciously take into account both CPU and memory load sharing in the cluster, thereby maintaining a high performance for a wide spectrum of workload. Using a set of real I/O-intensive parallel applications in addition to synthetic parallel jobs, we show that the proposed schemes consistently outperform the existing non-I/Oaware load-balancing schemes for a diverse set of workload conditions. Importantly, the performance improvement becomes much more pronounced when the applications are I/O-intensive.
Citation:
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson, "Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster of Workstations," cluster, pp.100, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'03), 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||