International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03) Load-Balancing Scatter Operations for Grid Computing Nice, France April 22-April 26 ISBN: 0-7695-1926-1
We present solutions to statically load-balance scatter operations in parallel codes run on Grids. Our load-balancing strategy is based on the modification of the data distributions used in scatter operations. We study the replacement of scatter operations with a parameterized scatter, allowing a custom distribution of data. The paper presents: 1) a general algorithm which finds an optimal distribution of data across processors; 2) a quicker guaranteed heuristic relying on hypotheses on communications and computations; 3) a policy on the ordering of the processors. Experimental results with an MPI scientific code illustrate the benefits obtained from our load-balancing.
Citation:
Stéphane Genaud, Arnaud Giersch, Frédéric Vivien, "Load-Balancing Scatter Operations for Grid Computing," ipdps, pp.101a, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03), 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||