Title
EHGRID: An emulator of heterogeneous computational grids
Abstract
Heterogeneous distributed computing is found in a variety of fields including scientific computing, Internet and mobile devices. Computational grids focusing primarily on computationally-intensive operations have emerged as a new infrastructure for high performance computing. Specific algorithms such as scheduling, load balancing and data redistribution have been devised to overcome the limitations of these systems and take full advantage of their processing power. However, experimental validation and fine-tuning of such algorithms require multiple heterogeneous platforms and configurations. We present EHGRID, a computational grid emulator based on the heterogeneous emulator Wrekavoc. EHGRID reshapes the virtual topology of a homogeneous cluster, degrades the performance of the processors and modifies the characteristics of the network links in an accurate, independent and reproducible way. We demonstrate its utility using two parallel matrix-vector programs and selected NAS parallel benchmarks on a series of four emulated grids.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161167
IPDPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
high performance computing,parallel matrix-vector program,multiple heterogeneous platform,scientific computing,heterogeneous computational grid,nas parallel benchmarks,heterogeneous emulator,computational grid,data redistribution,computational grid emulator,computationally-intensive operation,distributed computing,kernel,topology,mobile devices,scheduling,heterogeneous computing,degradation,mobile device,scheduling algorithm,grid computing,load balance,bandwidth,data mining,mobile computing,distributed processing,load balancing,internet,clustering algorithms
Grid computing,Supercomputer,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Mobile device,Bandwidth (signal processing),Grid,The Internet,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-2075
2
0.36
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Basile Clout120.36
Eric Aubanel2579.75