A Tool for Prioritizing DAGMan Jobs and its Evaluation

It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictability is to schedule job execution in a manner that constantly maximizes the number of jobs that can be sent to workers. A recently developed scheduling theory provides a basis to meet that optimization goal. Intuitively, when the number of such jobs is always large, high parallelism can be maintained, even if the number of workers changes over time in an unpredictable manner. In this paper we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical scheduling tool inspired by the theory. Given a DAGMan input file with interdependent jobs, the tool prioritizes the jobs. The resulting schedule significantly outperforms currently used schedules under a wide range of system parameters, as shown by simulation studies. For example, a scientific data analysis application, AIRSN, was executed at c 2006 Kluw...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: GRID
• Authors: Grzegorz Malewicz, Ian T. Foster, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Michael Wilde
• Keywords: Complex Job Dependencies, Distributed And Parallel Computing, GRID 2007, Practical Scheduling Tool, Temporal Unpredictability