Title
FlowCon: Elastic Flow Configuration for Containerized Deep Learning Applications
Abstract
An increasing number of companies are using data analytics to improve their products, services, and business processes. However, learning knowledge effectively from massive data sets always involves nontrivial computational resources. Most businesses thus choose to migrate their hardware needs to a remote cluster computing service (e.g., AWS) or to an in-house cluster facility which is often run at its resource capacity. In such scenarios, where jobs compete for available resources utilizing resources effectively to achieve high-performance data analytics becomes desirable. Although cluster resource management is a fruitful research area having made many advances (e.g., YARN, Kubernetes), few projects have investigated how further optimizations can be made specifically for training multiple machine learning (ML) / deep learning (DL) models. In this work, we introduce FlowCon, a system which is able to monitor loss functions of ML/DL jobs at runtime, and thus to make decisions on resource configuration elastically. We present a detailed design and implementation of FlowCon, and conduct intensive experiments over various DL models. Our experimental results show that FlowCon can strongly improve DL job completion time and resource utilization efficiency, compared to existing approaches. Specifically, FlowCon can reduce the completion time by up to 42.06% for a specific job without sacrificing the overall makespan, in the presence of various DL job workloads.
Year
DOI
Keywords
2019
10.1145/3337821.3337868
cloud computing, containerized application, deep learning, high performance analytics, resource management
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,Flow (psychology),Parallel computing,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning
Conference
978-1-4503-6295-5
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6295-5
3
0.43
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenjia Zheng130.43
Michael Tynes230.43
Henry Gorelick330.43
Ying Mao4308.54
Long Cheng59116.99
Yantian Hou68410.54