NDLI: A Hierarchical Load-Balancing Framework for Dynamic Multithreaded Computations (1998)

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A Hierarchical Load-Balancing Framework for Dynamic Multithreaded Computations (1998)

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Author	Karamcheti, Vijay Chien, Andrew A.
Description	High-level parallel programming models that support dynamic fine-grained threads in a global object space, are becoming increasingly popular for expressing irregular applications based on sophisticated adaptive algorithms and pointer-based data structures. However, implementing these multithreaded com-putations on scalable parallel machines poses significant challenges, particularly with respect to load-balancing. Load-balancing techniques must simultaneously incur low overhead to support fine-grained threads as well as be sophisticated enough to preserve data locality and thread execution priority. This paper presents a hierarchical framework which addresses these conflicting goals by viewing the computation as being made up of different thread subsets, each of which are load-balanced indepen-dently. In contrast to previous processor-centric approaches that have advocated the use of a uniform policy for load-balancing all threads in a computation, our framework allows each thread subset to be load-balanced using a policy most suited to its characteristics (e.g., locality or priority sensitivity). The framework consists of two parts: (i) language support which permits a programmer or the compiler to tag different thread subsets with appropriate policies, and (ii) run-time support which synthesizes overall application load-balance by composing these individual policies. This framework has been implemented in the Illinois Concert runtime system, an implementation platform for fine-grained concurrent object-oriented languages. Results for four large irregular applica-tions on the Cray T3D and the SGI Origin 2000 demonstrate advantages of the hierarchical framework: performance improves by up to an order of magnitude as compared to using a uniform load-balancing policy. 1
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher Date	1998-01-01
Publisher Institution	In: Supercomputing, 1998.SC98. IEEE/ACM Conference on
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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