Title
Mesh partitioners for computational grids: a comparison
Abstract
Computational grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for high performance computing. Since the resources in a grid can be heterogeneous and distributed, mesh-based applications may require a mesh partitioner that considers both processor and network heterogeneity. We have developed a heterogeneous mesh partitioner, called PaGrid. PaGrid uses a multilevel graph partitioning approach, augmented by execution time load balancing in the final uncoarsening phase. We propose that estimated execution time of the application is a better metric for the performance of a mesh partitioner than communication cost. The main objective of this paper is to compare the performance of PaGrid with two existing mesh partitioners, METIS 4.0 and Jostle 3.0, for mapping applications to a heterogeneous computational grid. We have found that PaGrid produces comparable or better partitions than Jostle. Although the performance of METIS is worse, in terms of total communication cost, than PaGrid and Jostle, it is comparable to them in terms of the estimated execution time of the application.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
ICCSA (3)
better partition,execution time load balancing,high performance computing,communication cost,estimated execution time,heterogeneous mesh partitioner,heterogeneous computational grid,computational grid,existing mesh partitioners,mesh partitioner,heterogeneous computing,load balance,graph partitioning
Field
DocType
Volume
Supercomputer,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Parallel computing,Metis,Execution time,Graph partition,Grid,Distributed computing
Conference
2669
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-40156-3
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sili Huang1191.31
Eric Aubanel2579.75
Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar320523.36