JAWS: Job-Aware Workload Scheduling for the Exploration of Turbulence Simulations

  • Authors:
  • Xiaodan Wang;Eric Perlman;Randal Burns;Tanu Malik;Tamas Budavári;Charles Meneveau;Alexander Szalay

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present JAWS, a job-aware, data-driven batch scheduler that improves query throughput for data-intensive scientific database clusters. As datasets reach petabyte-scale, workloads that scan through vast amounts of data to extract features are gaining importance in the sciences. However, acute performance bottlenecks result when multiple queries execute simultaneously and compete for I/O resources. Our solution, JAWS, divides queries into I/O-friendly sub-queries for scheduling. It then identifies overlapping data requirements within the workload and executes sub-queries in batches to maximize data sharing and reduce redundant I/O. JAWS extends our previous work by supporting workflows in which queries exhibit data dependencies, exploiting workload knowledge to coordinate caching decisions, and combating starvation through adaptive and incremental trade-offs between query throughput and response time. Instrumenting JAWS in the Turbulence Database Cluster yields nearly three-fold improvement in query throughput when contention in the workload is high.