NDLI: Exploiting duplication to minimize the execution times of parallel programs on message-passing systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yu-Kwong Kwok Ahmad, I.
Copyright Year	1994
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong (Yu-Kwong Kwok; Ahmad, I.)
Abstract	Communication overhead is one of the main factors that can limit the speedup of parallel programs on message-passing parallel architectures. This limiting factor is more predominant in distributed systems such as clusters of homogeneous or heterogeneous workstations. However, excessive communication overhead can be reduced by redundantly executing some of the tasks of a parallel program on which other tasks critically depend. We study the problem of duplication-based static scheduling of parallel programs on parallel and distributed systems. Previous duplication-based scheduling algorithms assumed the availability of unlimited number of homogeneous processors. We consider more practical scenarios: when the number of processors is limited, and when the system consists of heterogeneous computers. For the first scenario, we propose an algorithm which minimizes the execution of a parallel program by controlling the level of duplication according to the number of processors available. For the second scenario, we design an algorithm which simultaneously exploits duplication and processor heterogeneity to minimize the total execution time of a parallel program. The proposed algorithms are suitable for low as well as high communication-to-computation ratios.
Starting Page	426
Ending Page	433
File Size	879734
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818664274
DOI	10.1109/SPDP.1994.346138
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1994-10-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Processor scheduling Scheduling algorithm Workstations Concurrent computing Distributed computing Computer science Parallel architectures Communication system control Algorithm design and analysis Computer architecture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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