Title :
Improving the performance of hierarchical scheduling for rendering
Author :
Khan, Ab Rouf ; Saleem, Muneeba ; Banday, Shoaib Amin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., VIT Univ., Vellore, India
Abstract :
With the improvement and development of the high performance computing systems, the need arises to use the resources available at hand efficiently. Rendering is one kind of application which is suitable for high computing. In the modern era of computing we have got the quad processors available, but the processes and data we manipulate on these, is still based on the serial algorithms in many of the cases. As rendering needs more computing and is associated with huge data access, it can be broken into the smaller subtasks of same nature to be executed on the different processors. The parallel approach works on the principle of solving or computing the different similar sub-tasks using the different available resources of computing (processors) in a parallel fashion. Means at the end of one unit of time, we are having the result of as much number of subtasks in hand, as the number of processors available. The only thing we need to keep in mind is how to efficiently share the resources between different subtasks and how to balance the load factor as per different processors are considered. In this paper we are proposing a hierarchical scheduling policy for rendering to improve its performance as compared to the present day available methods. We will evaluate the approach with the existing approaches for rendering to show the improvement in performance.
Keywords :
parallel algorithms; processor scheduling; rendering (computer graphics); computing resources; data access; hierarchical scheduling policy; high-performance computing system development; high-performance computing system improvement; load factor balancing; parallel approach; performance improvement; rendering; similar-subtasks; Algorithm design and analysis; Load management; Parallel algorithms; Program processors; Rendering (computer graphics); Time complexity; Workstations; Beauty; Elegance; Parallel Processing; Rendering; Simplicity;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence on Power, Energy and Controls with their impact on Humanity (CIPECH), 2014 Innovative Applications of
Conference_Location :
Ghaziabad
DOI :
10.1109/CIPECH.2014.7019061