Predicting the Performance of Scientific Workflow Tasks for Cluster Resource Management: An Overview of the State of the Art

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Autores principales: Bader, Jonathan, West, Kathleen, Becker, Soeren, Kulagina, Svetlana, Lehmann, Fabian, Thamsen, Lauritz, Meyerhenke, Henning, Kao, Odej
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author Bader, Jonathan
West, Kathleen
Becker, Soeren
Kulagina, Svetlana
Lehmann, Fabian
Thamsen, Lauritz
Meyerhenke, Henning
Kao, Odej
author_facet Bader, Jonathan
West, Kathleen
Becker, Soeren
Kulagina, Svetlana
Lehmann, Fabian
Thamsen, Lauritz
Meyerhenke, Henning
Kao, Odej
contents Scientific workflow management systems support large-scale data analysis on cluster infrastructures. For this, they interact with resource managers which schedule workflow tasks onto cluster nodes. In addition to workflow task descriptions, resource managers rely on task performance estimates such as main memory consumption and runtime to efficiently manage cluster resources. Such performance estimates should be automated, as user-based task performance estimates are error-prone. In this book chapter, we describe key characteristics of methods for workflow task runtime and memory prediction, provide an overview and a detailed comparison of state-of-the-art methods from the literature, and discuss how workflow task performance prediction is useful for scheduling, energy-efficient and carbon-aware computing, and cost prediction.
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spellingShingle Predicting the Performance of Scientific Workflow Tasks for Cluster Resource Management: An Overview of the State of the Art
Bader, Jonathan
West, Kathleen
Becker, Soeren
Kulagina, Svetlana
Lehmann, Fabian
Thamsen, Lauritz
Meyerhenke, Henning
Kao, Odej
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Scientific workflow management systems support large-scale data analysis on cluster infrastructures. For this, they interact with resource managers which schedule workflow tasks onto cluster nodes. In addition to workflow task descriptions, resource managers rely on task performance estimates such as main memory consumption and runtime to efficiently manage cluster resources. Such performance estimates should be automated, as user-based task performance estimates are error-prone. In this book chapter, we describe key characteristics of methods for workflow task runtime and memory prediction, provide an overview and a detailed comparison of state-of-the-art methods from the literature, and discuss how workflow task performance prediction is useful for scheduling, energy-efficient and carbon-aware computing, and cost prediction.
title Predicting the Performance of Scientific Workflow Tasks for Cluster Resource Management: An Overview of the State of the Art
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20867