GrapheonRL: A Graph Neural Network and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Constraint and Data-Aware Workflow Mapping and Scheduling in Heterogeneous HPC Systems

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Autori principali: Sharma, Aasish Kumar, Kunkel, Julian
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author Sharma, Aasish Kumar
Kunkel, Julian
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Kunkel, Julian
contents Effective resource utilization and decreased makespan in heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) environments are key benefits of workload mapping and scheduling. Tools such as Snakemake, a workflow management solution, employ Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and heuristic techniques to deploy workflows in various HPC environments like SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) or Kubernetes. Its scheduler factors in workflow task dependencies, resource requirements, and individual task data sizes before system deployment. ILP offers optimal solutions respecting constraints, but only for smaller workflows. Meanwhile, meta-heuristics and heuristics offer faster, though suboptimal, makespan. As problem sizes, system constraints, and complexities evolve, maintaining these schedulers becomes challenging. In this study, we propose a novel solution that integrates Graph Neural Network (GNN) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) to flexibly handle workflows, dynamic constraints, and heterogeneous resources while providing quick responses. GNN manages dependencies and resource requirements, and RL optimizes scheduling decision-making via a learned policy, overcoming the need for a comprehensive global search. Experimental results with different datasets demonstrate that this method effectively adapts to different workflows, adheres to HPC constraints, and offers optimal solutions akin to ILP but with drastically reduced execution times (76 percent faster), comparable to heuristic methods (only 3.85 times slower than OLB). Our contribution is to provide a robust yet scalable mapping and scheduling solution that can handle changing constraints, as well as workload sizes and complexities in a heterogeneous HPC Compute Continuum system landscape.
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spellingShingle GrapheonRL: A Graph Neural Network and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Constraint and Data-Aware Workflow Mapping and Scheduling in Heterogeneous HPC Systems
Sharma, Aasish Kumar
Kunkel, Julian
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Emerging Technologies
Effective resource utilization and decreased makespan in heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) environments are key benefits of workload mapping and scheduling. Tools such as Snakemake, a workflow management solution, employ Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and heuristic techniques to deploy workflows in various HPC environments like SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) or Kubernetes. Its scheduler factors in workflow task dependencies, resource requirements, and individual task data sizes before system deployment. ILP offers optimal solutions respecting constraints, but only for smaller workflows. Meanwhile, meta-heuristics and heuristics offer faster, though suboptimal, makespan. As problem sizes, system constraints, and complexities evolve, maintaining these schedulers becomes challenging. In this study, we propose a novel solution that integrates Graph Neural Network (GNN) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) to flexibly handle workflows, dynamic constraints, and heterogeneous resources while providing quick responses. GNN manages dependencies and resource requirements, and RL optimizes scheduling decision-making via a learned policy, overcoming the need for a comprehensive global search. Experimental results with different datasets demonstrate that this method effectively adapts to different workflows, adheres to HPC constraints, and offers optimal solutions akin to ILP but with drastically reduced execution times (76 percent faster), comparable to heuristic methods (only 3.85 times slower than OLB). Our contribution is to provide a robust yet scalable mapping and scheduling solution that can handle changing constraints, as well as workload sizes and complexities in a heterogeneous HPC Compute Continuum system landscape.
title GrapheonRL: A Graph Neural Network and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Constraint and Data-Aware Workflow Mapping and Scheduling in Heterogeneous HPC Systems
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00260