Adaptive Asynchronous Work-Stealing for distributed load-balancing in heterogeneous systems

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Main Authors: Fernandes, João B., de Assis, Ítalo A. S., Martins, Idalmis M. S., Barros, Tiago, Xavier-de-Souza, Samuel
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Published: 2024
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author Fernandes, João B.
de Assis, Ítalo A. S.
Martins, Idalmis M. S.
Barros, Tiago
Xavier-de-Souza, Samuel
author_facet Fernandes, João B.
de Assis, Ítalo A. S.
Martins, Idalmis M. S.
Barros, Tiago
Xavier-de-Souza, Samuel
contents Supercomputers have revolutionized how industries and scientific fields process large amounts of data. These machines group hundreds or thousands of computing nodes working together to execute time-consuming programs that require a large amount of computational resources. Over the years, supercomputers have expanded to include new and different technologies characterizing them as heterogeneous. However, executing a program in a heterogeneous environment requires attention to a specific aspect of performance degradation: load imbalance. In this research, we address the challenges associated with load imbalance when scheduling many homogeneous tasks in a heterogeneous environment. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of adaptive asynchronous work-stealing. This approach collects information about the nodes and utilizes it to improve work-stealing aspects, such as victim selection and task offloading. Additionally, the proposed approach eliminates the need for extra threads to communicate information, thereby reducing overhead when implementing a fully asynchronous approach. Our experimental results demonstrate a performance improvement of approximately 10.1\% compared to other conventional and state-of-the-art implementations.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Asynchronous Work-Stealing for distributed load-balancing in heterogeneous systems
Fernandes, João B.
de Assis, Ítalo A. S.
Martins, Idalmis M. S.
Barros, Tiago
Xavier-de-Souza, Samuel
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Supercomputers have revolutionized how industries and scientific fields process large amounts of data. These machines group hundreds or thousands of computing nodes working together to execute time-consuming programs that require a large amount of computational resources. Over the years, supercomputers have expanded to include new and different technologies characterizing them as heterogeneous. However, executing a program in a heterogeneous environment requires attention to a specific aspect of performance degradation: load imbalance. In this research, we address the challenges associated with load imbalance when scheduling many homogeneous tasks in a heterogeneous environment. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of adaptive asynchronous work-stealing. This approach collects information about the nodes and utilizes it to improve work-stealing aspects, such as victim selection and task offloading. Additionally, the proposed approach eliminates the need for extra threads to communicate information, thereby reducing overhead when implementing a fully asynchronous approach. Our experimental results demonstrate a performance improvement of approximately 10.1\% compared to other conventional and state-of-the-art implementations.
title Adaptive Asynchronous Work-Stealing for distributed load-balancing in heterogeneous systems
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04494