Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Scheduling strategies for mixed data and task parallelism on heterogeneous clusters and grids
Genova, Italy
February 05-February 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1875-3
We consider the execution of a complex application on a heterogeneous "grid" computing platform. The complex application consists of a suite of identical, independent prob- lems to be solved. In turn, each problem consists of a set of tasks. There are dependences (precedence constraints) between these tasks. A typical example is the repeated execution of the same algorithm on several distinct data samples. We use a non-oriented graph to model the grid platform, where resources have different speeds of computation and communication. We show how to determine the optimal steady-state scheduling strategy for each processor (the fraction of time spent computing and the fraction of time spent communicating with each neighbor). This result holds for a quite general framework, allowing for cycles and multiple paths in the platform graph.
Citation:
O. Beaumont, A. Legrand, Y. Robert, "Scheduling strategies for mixed data and task parallelism on heterogeneous clusters and grids," pdp, pp.209, Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2003