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Scheduling Dynamic Workflows onto Clusters of Clusters using Postponing
Sascha Hunold a, 1Thomas Rauber a, 2Frédéric Suter 3
3rd International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science - WSES 2008 (2008) 669-674
Résumé : In this article, we revisit the problem of scheduling dynamically generated directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of multi-processor tasks (M-tasks). A DAG is a basic model for expressing workflows applications where each node represents a task of the workflow. We present a novel algorithm (DMHEFT) for scheduling dynamically generated DAGs onto a heterogeneous collection of clusters. The scheduling decisions are based on the predicted runtime of an M-task as well as the estimation of the redistribution costs between data-dependent tasks. The algorithm also takes care of unfavorable placements of M-tasks by considering the postponing of ready tasks even if idle processors are available. We evaluate the scheduling algorithm by comparing the resulting makespans to the results obtained by using other scheduling algorithms, such as RePA and MHEFT.
- a – University of Bayreuth
- 1 : Department of mathematics and physics
- University of Bayreuth
- 2 : Department of mathematics and physics
- University of Bayreuth
- 3 : ALGORILLE (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA)
- INRIA – CNRS : UMR7503 – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)
- Domaine : Informatique/Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé
- Mots-clés : clusters of clusters – dag scheduling – mixed-parallelism – workflow scheduling
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- Contributeur : Frederic Suter
- Soumis le : Lundi 13 Octobre 2008, 14:19:44
- Dernière modification le : Mardi 18 Novembre 2008, 14:47:17