Autonomic application management for large scale MPI programs. (29th December 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nascimento, Aline P.; Sena, Alexandre C.; Silva, Jacques A.; Vianna, Daniela Q.C.; Boeres, Cristina; Rebello, Vinod
• Is Part Of: International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 5:Number 4(2008)
• Page Start: 227
• Page End: 240
• Publication Date: 2008-12-29
• Subjects: grid computing -- MPI applications -- autonomic applications -- hybrid scheduling -- fault-tolerant systems -- message passing interface; High performance computing -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; High performance computing; Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0562

Abstract

Computational grids aim to aggregate significant numbers of resources to provide sufficient, but low cost, computational power to various applications. Writing applications capable of executing efficiently in grids, is however extremely difficult. Their geographically distributed resources are typically heterogeneous, non-dedicated, and offer no performance or availability guarantees. This makes the collective management of resources and application both complex and arduous. This work investigates an alternative approach (based on system-awareness) to solve the problem of developing and managing the execution of grid applications efficiently. Results show that these system-aware applications are indeed faster than their conventional implementations and easily grid enabled.