On development of an efficient parallel loop self-scheduling for grid computing environments

  • Authors:

  • Chao-Tung Yang;Kuan-Wei Cheng;Wen-Chung Shih

  • Affiliations:

  • High Performance Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan, ROC;High Performance Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Parallel Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The approaches to deal with scheduling and load balancing on PC-based cluster systems are famous and well-known. Self-scheduling schemes, which are suitable for parallel loops with independent iterations on cluster computer system, they have been designed in the past. In this paper, we propose a new scheme that can adjust the scheduling parameter dynamically on an extremely heterogeneous PC-based cluster and Grid computing environments in order to improve system performance. A Grid computing environment consists of multiple PC-based clusters is constructed using Globus Toolkit and MPICH-G2 middleware. The experimental results show that our scheduling can result in higher performance than other similar schemes on Grid computing environments.