Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
This paper presents a resource selection system for exploiting graphics processing units (GPUs) as general-purpose computational
resources in desktop Grid environments. Our system allows Grid users to share remote GPUs, which are traditionally dedicated
to local users who directly see the display output. The key contribution of the paper is to develop this novel system for
non-dedicated environments. We first show criteria for defining idle GPUs from the Grid users’ point of view. Based on these
criteria, our system uses a screensaver approach with some sensors that detect idle resources at a low overhead. The idea
for this lower overhead is to avoid GPU intervention during resource monitoring. Detected idle GPUs are then selected according
to a matchmaking service, making the system adaptive to the rapid advance of GPU architecture. Though the system itself is
not yet interoperable with current desktop Grid systems, our idea can be applied to screensaver-based systems such as BOINC.
We evaluate the system using Windows PCs with three generations of nVIDIA GPUs. The experimental results show that our system
achieves a low overhead of at most 267 ms, minimizing interference to local users while maximizing the performance delivered
to Grid users. Some case studies are also performed in an office environment to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system
in terms of the amount of detected idle time. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1007/s10723-008-9099-7 | J. Grid Comput. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Cycle stealing,Desktop Grid,Graphics processing unit,Resource monitoring,Resource selection | Cycle stealing,Graphics,Architecture,Interoperability,Idle,Computer science,Interference (wave propagation),Graphics processing unit,Grid,Embedded system,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
6 | 4 | 1572-9184 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.68 | 17 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuki Kotanit Yuma Munekawa | 1 | 16 | 1.64 |
| Fumihiko Ino | 2 | 317 | 38.63 |
| Kenichi Hagihara | 3 | 528 | 56.94 |