The impact of migration on parallel job scheduling for distributed systems

Yanyong Zhang, Hubertus Franke, Jose E. Moreira, Anand Sivasubramaniam

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the impact of task migration on gangscheduling of parallel jobs for distributed systems. With migration, it is possible to move tasks of a job from their originally assigned set of nodes to another set of nodes, during execution of the job. This additional flexibility creates more opportunities for filling holes in the scheduling matrix. We conduct a simulation-based study of the effect of migration on average job slowdown and wait times for a large distributed system under a variety of loads.We find that migration can significantly improve these performance metrics over an important range of operating points. We also analyze the effect of the cost of migrating tasks on overall system performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEuro-Par 2000 Parallel Processing - 6th International Euro-Par Conference, Proceedings
EditorsArndt Bode, Thomas Ludwig, Wolfgang Karl, Roland Wismüller
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages242-251
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783540679561
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Event6th International European Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2000 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Aug 29 2000Sep 1 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1900
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other6th International European Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2000
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period8/29/009/1/00

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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