TY - GEN
T1 - Data staging effects in wide area task farming applications
AU - Elwasif, Wael R.
AU - Plank, James S.
AU - Wolski, Rich
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Recent advances in computing and communication have given rise to the computational grid notion (I. Foster and C. Kesselman, 1998). The core of this computing paradigm is the design of a system for drawing compute power from a confederation of geographically dispersed heterogeneous resources, seamlessly and ubiquitously. If high-performance levels are to be achieved, data locality must be identified and managed. We consider the effect of server side staging on the behavior of a class of wide area task farming or parameter sweep applications. We show that staging improves task throughput mainly through the increased parallelism rather than the reduction in overall turnaround time per task. We derive a model for farming applications with and without server side staging and verify the model through live experiments as well as simulations.
AB - Recent advances in computing and communication have given rise to the computational grid notion (I. Foster and C. Kesselman, 1998). The core of this computing paradigm is the design of a system for drawing compute power from a confederation of geographically dispersed heterogeneous resources, seamlessly and ubiquitously. If high-performance levels are to be achieved, data locality must be identified and managed. We consider the effect of server side staging on the behavior of a class of wide area task farming or parameter sweep applications. We show that staging improves task throughput mainly through the increased parallelism rather than the reduction in overall turnaround time per task. We derive a model for farming applications with and without server side staging and verify the model through live experiments as well as simulations.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923184
DO - 10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923184
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887575018
SN - 0769510108
SN - 9780769510101
T3 - Proceedings - 1st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2001
SP - 122
EP - 129
BT - Proceedings - 1st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2001
T2 - 1st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2001
Y2 - 15 May 2001 through 18 May 2001
ER -