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| Author(s): |
Paulo Henrique Ribeiro Gabriel
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB) |
| Defense date: | 2013-04-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello;
Raphael Yokoingawa de Camargo;
Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem;
Bruno Richard Schulze;
Luciano José Senger
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| Advisor: | Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello |
| Abstract | |
One of the most important challenges involved in the design of grid computing systems is process scheduling, which maps applications into the available computers in attempt to reduce the application execution time, or maximize resource utilization. The literature of Distributed Systems usually deals with these two objectives separately, supporting the application-centric and the resourcecentric scheduling, respectively. More recently, a third approach referred to as system-centric scheduling has emerged which attempts to optimize both objectives in conjunction. Heuristic-based and approximation-based algorithms have been proposed to address this third type of scheduling. Heuristics aim to find good solutions at acceptable time constraints, without guaranteeing solution quality. On the other hand, approximation-based algorithms provide optimal solution bounds, however they are more difficult to design what makes them available only to simple scenarios. The need for approximation-based algorithms to support system-centric scheduling has motivated this thesis which presents Min Heap-based Scheduling Algorithm (MHSA). This approximation algorithm is based on a mathematical optimization model, also proposed in this work, which considers process and resource behaviors to measure the quality of scheduling solutions. MHSA builds a min-heap data structure in which tree nodes represent computers and sorting keys correspond to queuing times, i.e., computer workloads. Besides this algorithm primarily reduces application execution times (also referred to as makespan), its data structure allows any computer assume the root node and, consequently, receive workloads, what favors resource utilization. This algorithm has the worst-case time complexity equals to O(\'log IND. 2 m\'), in which m represents the number of system computers. Its approximation ratio was analyzed to heterogeneous distributed systems considering bag-of-tasks and communication-intensive applications. Having this ratio, we know the minimum quality level provided by every scheduling solution. Experiments were performed to compare MHSA to others. Results confirm MHSA reduces the time spent to obtain good quality scheduling solutions (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/15338-1 - A system-centric approach for process scheduling optimization in computational grids |
| Grantee: | Paulo Henrique Ribeiro Gabriel |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |