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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Job Mapping and Scheduling on Free-Space Optical Networks

Yao HU, Ikki FUJIWARA, Michihiro KOIBUCHI

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A number of parallel applications run on a high-performance computing (HPC) system simultaneously. Job mapping and scheduling become crucial to improve system utilization, because fragmentation prevents an incoming job from being assigned even if there are enough compute nodes unused. Wireless supercomputers and datacenters with free-space optical (FSO) terminals have been proposed to replace the conventional wired interconnection so that a diverse application workload can be better supported by changing their network topologies. In this study we firstly present an efficient job mapping by swapping the endpoints of FSO links in a wireless HPC system. Our evaluation shows that an FSO-equipped wireless HPC system can achieve shorter average queuing length and queuing time for all the dispatched user jobs. Secondly, we consider the use of a more complicated and enhanced scheduling algorithm, which can further improve the system utilization over different host networks, as well as the average response time for all the dispatched user jobs. Finally, we present the performance advantages of the proposed wireless HPC system under more practical assumptions such as different cabinet capacities and diverse subtopology packings.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E99-D No.11 pp.2694-2704
Publication Date
2016/11/01
Publicized
2016/08/16
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7193
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Computer System

Authors

Yao HU
  National Institute of Informatics
Ikki FUJIWARA
  National Institute of Informatics
Michihiro KOIBUCHI
  National Institute of Informatics

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