Predictability of Process Resource Usage: A Measurement-Based Study on UNIX
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The interaction of parallel and sequential workloads on a network of workstations
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
U-Net: a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
UNIX internals: the new frontiers
UNIX internals: the new frontiers
Effective distributed scheduling of parallel workloads
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Exploiting process lifetime distributions for dynamic load balancing
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Coordinating parallel processes on networks of workstations
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Scheduling with implicit information in distributed systems
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Load-balancing heuristics and process behavior
SIGMETRICS '86/PERFORMANCE '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Computer performance modelling, measurement and evaluation
A simulation-based study of scheduling mechanisms for a dynamic cluster environment
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Supercomputing
On choosing a task assignment policy for a distributed server system
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on software support for distributed computing
Alternatives to coscheduling a network of workstations
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on software support for distributed computing
High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications
High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications
Dynamic Coscheduling on Workstation Clusters
IPPS/SPDP '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Active Ports: A Performance-Oriented Operating System Support to Fast LAN Communications
Euro-Par '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Buffered Coscheduling: A New Methodology for Multitasking Parallel Jobs on Distributed Systems
IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
A Detailed Simulation Model of the HP 97560 Disk Drive
A Detailed Simulation Model of the HP 97560 Disk Drive
Fair Scheduling of General-Purpose Workloads on Workstation Clusters
Cluster Computing
Proceedings of the 22nd international symposium on High-performance parallel and distributed computing
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Workstation clusters are emerging as a general-purpose computing platform for the execution of workloads comprising parallel and sequential applications. The scalability and flexibility typical of implicit coscheduling strategies makes them a very promising solution to the scheduling needs of workstation clusters. In this paper we present a simulation study that compares, for a variety of workloads (that include both parallel and sequential applications) and operating system schedulers, 12 implicit coscheduling strategies in terms of the performance they are able to deliver to applications. By using a detailed simulator, we evaluate the performance of different coscheduling alternatives for a variety of simulation scenarios, and we identify the set of strategies that deliver the best performance to all the applications composing typical cluster workloads. Moreover, we show that for schedulers providing iimmediate preemption, the best strategies are also the simplest ones to implement.