GoldRush: Resource efficient in situ scientific data analytics using fine-grained interference aware execution

Fang Zheng, Hongfeng Yu, Can Hantas, Matthew Wolf, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Hasan Abbasi, Scott Klasky

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Abstract

Severe I/O bottlenecks on High End Computing platforms call for running data analytics in situ. Demonstrating that there exist considerable resources in compute nodes un-used by typical high end scientific simulations, we leverage this fact by creating an agile runtime, termed GoldRush, that can harvest those otherwise wasted, idle resources to efficiently run in situ data analytics. GoldRush uses fine-grained scheduling to "steal" idle resources, in ways that minimize interference between the simulation and in situ analytics. This involves recognizing the potential causes of on-node resource contention and then using scheduling methods that prevent them. Experiments with representative science applications at large scales show that resources harvested on compute nodes can be leveraged to perform useful analytics, significantly improving resource efficiency, reducing data movement costs incurred by alternate solutions, and posing negligible impact on scientific simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2013
Subtitle of host publicationThe International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781450323789
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2013 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: Nov 17 2013Nov 22 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2013 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period11/17/1311/22/13

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