Issue No. 10 - October (2007 vol. 18)
ISSN: 1045-9219
pp: 1420-1435
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we consider the task allocation problem for computing a large set of equal-sized independent tasks on a heterogeneous computing system where the tasks initially reside on a single computer (the root) in the system. This problem represents the computation paradigm for a wide range of applications such as SETI@home and Monte Carlo simulations. We consider the scenario where the systems have a general graph-structured topology, and the computers are capable of concurrent communications and overlapping communications with computation. We show that the maximization of system throughput reduces to a standard network flow problem. We then develop a decentralized adaptive algorithm that solves a relaxed form of the standard network flow problem and maximizes the system throughput. This algorithm is then approximated by a simple decentralized protocol to coordinate the resources adaptively. Simulations are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. For both uniformly distributed and power law distributed systems, close-to-optimal throughput is achieved and improved performance over a bandwidth-centric heuristic is observed. The adaptivity of the proposed approach is also verified through simulations.
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Viktor Prasanna, Bo Hong, "Adaptive Allocation of Independent Tasks to Maximize Throughput", IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. , pp. 1420-1435, October 2007, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2007.1042
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