Runtime support for adaptive resource provisioning in MPI applications

Gonzalo Martín, David E. Singh, Maria Cristina Marinescu, Jesús Carretero

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Abstract

The work we present in this paper focuses on dynamic provisioning of computational resources depending on the performance requirements of the application and the characteristics of the cluster available for execution. We target applications which exhibit variable performance over time. The idea is to dynamically optimize the cost (total CPU-time)/performance (program execution time) ratio of parallel applications by (1) reducing the number of processors when the computation requirements decrease enough to justify it, and (2) moving computation onto those processors that can compute faster but don't require extensive remapping of the data. This approach adapts well to time-shared platforms in which many applications may need to execute on the same cluster at the same time, and allows users to implement different cost/performance tradeoffs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings
Pages294-295
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 23 Sept 201226 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7490 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period23/09/1226/09/12

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