Run-time support for adaptive load balancing

Milind A. Bhandarkar, Robert K. Brunner, Laxmikant V. Kalé

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Abstract

Many parallel scientific applications have dynamic and irregular computational structure. However, most such applications exhibit persistence of computational load and communication structure. This allows us to embed measurement-based automatic load balancing frame-work in run-time systems of parallel languages that are used to build such applications. In this paper, we describe such a framework built for the Converse [4] interoperable runtime system. This framework is composed of mechanisms for recording application performance data, a mechanism for object migration, and interfaces for plug-in load balancing strategy objects. Interfaces for strategy objects allow easy implementation of novel load balancing strategies that could use application characteristics on the entire machine, or only a local neighborhood. We present the performance of a few strategies on a synthetic benchmark and also the impact of automatic load balancing on an actual application.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationParallel and Distributed Processing - 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops, Proceedings
EditorsJose Rolim
PublisherSpringer
Pages1152-1159
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)354067442X, 9783540674429
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Event15 Workshops Held in Conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2000 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: May 1 2000May 5 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1800 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other15 Workshops Held in Conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2000
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period5/1/005/5/00

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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