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标题：What To Consider For Applying Backfilling On Non-Dedicated Environments
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作者：M. Hanzich ; F. Giné ; P. Hernández 等
期刊名称：Journal of Computer Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1666-6046
电子版ISSN：1666-6038
出版年度：2005
卷号：5
期号：4
出版社：Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium
摘要：The resource utilization level in open laboratories of several universities has been shown to be very low. Our aim is to take advantage of those idle resources for parallel computation without disturbing the local load. In order to provide a system that lets us execute parallel applications in such a non-dedicated cluster, we use an integral scheduling system that considers both Space and Time sharing concerns. For dealing with the Time Sharing (TS) aspect, we use a technique based on the communication-driven coscheduling principle. This kind of TS system has some implications on the Space Sharing (SS) system, that force us to modify the way job scheduling is traditionally done. In this paper, we analyze the relation between the TS and the SS systems in a non-dedicated cluster. As a consequence of this analysis, we propose a new technique, termed 3DBackfilling. This proposal implements the well known SS technique of backfilling, but applied to an environment with a MultiProgramming Level (MPL) of the parallel applications that is greater than one. Besides, 3DBackfilling considers the requirements of the local workload running on each node. Our proposal was evaluated in a PVM/MPI Linux cluster, and it was compared with several more traditional SS policies applied to non-dedicated environments
关键词：Space-Sharing; Non-Dedicated clusters; ;Backfilling; Coscheduling;Load Balancing