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Dynamic Management Of Heterogeneous Resources, Jerrell Watts, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor
Dynamic Management Of Heterogeneous Resources, Jerrell Watts, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor
College of Engineering and Computer Science - Former Departments, Centers, Institutes and Projects
This paper presents techniques for dynamic load balancing in heterogeneous computing environments. That is, the techniques are designed for sets of machines with varying processing capabilities and memory capacities. These methods can also be applied to homogenous systems in which the effective compute speed or memory availability is reduced by the presence of other programs running outside the target computation. To handle heterogeneous systems, a precise distinction is made between an abstract quantity of work, which might be measured as the number of iterations of a loop or the count of some data structure, and the utilization of resources, measured …
Automatic Granularity Control For Load Balancing Of Concurrent Particle Simulations, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor, Jerrell Watts
Automatic Granularity Control For Load Balancing Of Concurrent Particle Simulations, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor, Jerrell Watts
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship
This paper demonstrates the use of automatic granularity control as part of dynamic load balancing for irregular, particle-based simulations. Performance optimization techniques are considered in the context of a concurrent Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method used to study the rarefied gas flow inside three-dimensional plasma reactors. Several computational techniques are used to reduce the overall time to deliver realistic threedimensional results. The effectiveness of dynamic load balancing and granularity control are presented for large-scale simulations on distributed-memory multicomputers.
Automatic Granularity Control For Load Balancing Of Concurrent Particle Simulations, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor, Jerrell Watts
Automatic Granularity Control For Load Balancing Of Concurrent Particle Simulations, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor, Jerrell Watts
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship
This paper demonstrates the use of automatic granularity control as part of dynamic load balancing for irregular, particle-based simulations. Performance optimization techniques are considered in the context of a concurrent Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method used to study the rarefied gas flow inside three-dimensional plasma reactors. Several computational techniques are used to reduce the overall time to deliver realistic threedimensional results. The effectiveness of dynamic load balancing and granularity control are presented for large-scale simulations on distributed-memory multicomputers.