Performance of parallel I/O scheduling strategies on a network of workstations

Author

Chen, Fangyu ; Majumdar, Shilcharesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

164

Abstract

Techniques for scheduling parallel I/O for both uniprogrammed systems that run single jobs in isolation and multiprogrammed environments that execute multiple parallel jobs simultaneously are presented. The performance of the scheduling algorithms is evaluated on a network of workstations. A new scheduling algorithm proposed in this paper is observed to perform very well for systems running single jobs in isolation. The algorithms that use knowledge of job characteristics are observed to produce a superior performance in multiprogrammed parallel environments

Keywords

input-output programs; multiprogramming; scheduling; software performance evaluation; workstation clusters; multiprogrammed environments; parallel I/O scheduling; parallel input output scheduling; performance evaluation; uniprogrammed systems; workstation network; Buildings; Concurrent computing; Degradation; File systems; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; System performance; Systems engineering and theory; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2001. ICPADS 2001. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyongju City

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1153-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2001.934814

Filename

934814