Title
Parallel compression of correlated files
Abstract
Economy-based admission control of jobs in a grid, or migration of guest jobs from a disconnecting cluster in a grid, as well as checkpointing parallel jobs in a cluster to a central repository are demanding tasks that can exhaust essential resources such as the communication networks, due to the requirement to quickly move large amounts of data from many nodes. Compressing memory images might make these operations more efficient provided that the overall throughput is increased. Existing serial compression algorithms are not suitable for such purposes because they do not exploit inter-file redundancy. This paper presents decentralized algorithms for parallel compression of correlated memory images of a job in a cluster or in a grid. The algorithms use block suppression to eliminate inter-file redundancy. They take advantage of the multiple processor environment to simultaneously map memory blocks to hash values in order to detect redundancies. It is shown that exploiting inter-file redundancy of correlated files can increase the overall transfer throughput of parallel jobs. It is also shown that combining serial compression with our algorithms further increases this throughput. The paper presents the algorithms and their performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/CLUSTR.2007.4629242
CLUSTER
Keywords
Field
DocType
correlated memory image,compressing memory image,overall throughput,disconnecting cluster,memory block,parallel compression,inter-file redundancy,overall transfer throughput,correlated file,algorithms use block suppression,parallel job,memory management,cryptography,throughput,data compression,hidden markov models,grid computing,compression algorithm,hash value,redundancy,parallel algorithms,clustering algorithms
Grid computing,Parallel algorithm,Computer science,Parallel computing,Redundancy (engineering),Memory management,Hash function,Throughput,Data compression,Parallel compression,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ehud Meiri110.37
Amnon Barak2590119.00