Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level

This work described here then proceeds to evaluate (1) the cost of migration using an industry standard micro-benchmark ‘lmbench’ on a uniquely configured piece of hardware to ensure fair comparison, (2) the number of migrations on a representative operating system used for departmental HPC (dominate...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.63242016-05-05T02:01:14Z Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level 2015-03 Tan, Ian Kim Teck QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science This work described here then proceeds to evaluate (1) the cost of migration using an industry standard micro-benchmark ‘lmbench’ on a uniquely configured piece of hardware to ensure fair comparison, (2) the number of migrations on a representative operating system used for departmental HPC (dominated by the GNU Linux operating system) using a GNU Linux Scheduler simulator, and finally (3) proposes, implements and evaluates a dynamic load balancer triggering, based on the number of tasks in the system and the number of processing cores for a most effective utilisation of the processing cores. The benefits is illustrated using synthetic benchmarks and standard HPC benchmarks, the NASA Parallel Benchmarks. In this work, the proposed method achieved up to a 27% improvement. 2015-03 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6324/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Faculty of Computing and Informatics
institution Multimedia University
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topic QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers
Computer science
Tan, Ian Kim Teck
Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
description This work described here then proceeds to evaluate (1) the cost of migration using an industry standard micro-benchmark ‘lmbench’ on a uniquely configured piece of hardware to ensure fair comparison, (2) the number of migrations on a representative operating system used for departmental HPC (dominated by the GNU Linux operating system) using a GNU Linux Scheduler simulator, and finally (3) proposes, implements and evaluates a dynamic load balancer triggering, based on the number of tasks in the system and the number of processing cores for a most effective utilisation of the processing cores. The benefits is illustrated using synthetic benchmarks and standard HPC benchmarks, the NASA Parallel Benchmarks. In this work, the proposed method achieved up to a 27% improvement.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author Tan, Ian Kim Teck
author_facet Tan, Ian Kim Teck
author_sort Tan, Ian Kim Teck
title Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
title_short Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
title_full Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
title_fullStr Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
title_sort enhanced multicore load balancer with core-to-task ratio based trigger level
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Computing and Informatics
publishDate 2015
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