1997 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '97) Minimizing Communication Conflicts with Load-Skewing Task Assignment Techniques on Network of Workstations Taipei, Taiwan December 18-December 20 ISBN: 0-8186-8259-0
In a bus-based network of workstations, a perfectly load balance arrangement does not always lead to the best performance due to potential communication resource conflicts. Such a situation arises when workstations tend to compete for the shared bus after they all finish their assigned workload at about the same time under such a load arrangement. In this paper, we provide a thorough analysis on how such communication conflicts can be minimized in a bus-based system by using a load-skewing assignment method. A probablistic model is used to analyze the needed skewing factor for a one-stage divide-and-conquer programming paradigm. Our analytical results are closely confirmed by various simulation and experiment outcome. The proposed technique can also be extended to handle multi-stage cases.
Citation:
Wei Xie, Wei-Ming Lin, "Minimizing Communication Conflicts with Load-Skewing Task Assignment Techniques on Network of Workstations," ispan, pp.268, 1997 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '97), 1997 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||