Resource management in heterogeneous computing systems with tasks of varying importance
Date
2014
Authors
Khemka, Bhavesh, author
Maciejewski, Anthony A., advisor
Siegel, H. J., advisor
Pasricha, Sudeep, committee member
Koenig, Gregory A., committee member
Burns, Patrick J., committee member
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Publisher
Colorado State University. Libraries
Abstract
The problem of efficiently assigning tasks to machines in heterogeneous computing environments where different tasks can have different levels of importance (or value) to the computing system is a challenging one. The goal of this work is to study this problem in a variety of environments. One part of the study considers a computing system and its corresponding workload based on the expectations for future environments of Department of Energy and Department of Defense interest. We design heuristics to maximize a performance metric created using utility functions. We also create a framework to analyze the trade-offs between performance and energy consumption. We design techniques to maximize performance in a dynamic environment that has a constraint on the energy consumption. Another part of the study explores environments that have uncertainty in the availability of the compute resources. For this part, we design heuristics and compare their performance in different types of environments.
Description
2014 Summer.
Subject
energy-aware scheduling, high performance computing, resource allocations, reward, fault tolerance, heterogeneous computing