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A Task Scheduling Algorithm with Improved Makespan Based on Prediction of Tasks Computation Time algorithm for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is extensively used in a variety of applications and domains, however task and resource scheduling remains an area that requires improvement. Put simply, in a heterogeneous computing system, task scheduling algorithms, which allow the transfer of incoming tasks to machines, are needed to satisfy high performance data mapping requirements. The appropriate mapping between resources and tasks reduces makespan and maximises resource utilisation. In this contribution, we present a novel scheduling algorithm using Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) based on the Prediction of Tasks Computation Time algorithm (PTCT) to estimate the preeminent scheduling algorithm for prominent cloud data. In addition, the proposed algorithm provides a significant improvement with respect to the makespan and reduces the computation and complexity via employing Principle Components Analysis (PCA) and reducing the Expected Time to Compute (ETC) matrix. Simulation results confirm the superior performance of the algorithm for heterogeneous systems in terms of efficiency, speedup and schedule length ratio, when compared to the state-of-the-art Min-Min, Max-Min, QoS-Guide and MiM-MaM scheduling algorithms
A C-DAG task model for scheduling complex real-time tasks on heterogeneous platforms: preemption matters
Recent commercial hardware platforms for embedded real-time systems feature
heterogeneous processing units and computing accelerators on the same
System-on-Chip. When designing complex real-time application for such
architectures, the designer needs to make a number of difficult choices: on
which processor should a certain task be implemented? Should a component be
implemented in parallel or sequentially? These choices may have a great impact
on feasibility, as the difference in the processor internal architectures
impact on the tasks' execution time and preemption cost. To help the designer
explore the wide space of design choices and tune the scheduling parameters, in
this paper we propose a novel real-time application model, called C-DAG,
specifically conceived for heterogeneous platforms. A C-DAG allows to specify
alternative implementations of the same component of an application for
different processing engines to be selected off-line, as well as conditional
branches to model if-then-else statements to be selected at run-time. We also
propose a schedulability analysis for the C-DAG model and a heuristic
allocation algorithm so that all deadlines are respected. Our analysis takes
into account the cost of preempting a task, which can be non-negligible on
certain processors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a large
set of synthetic experiments by comparing with state of the art algorithms in
the literature
A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and
engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process
large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources.
Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex
workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards the development of
workflow management systems for Grid computing. In this paper, we propose a
taxonomy that characterizes and classifies various approaches for building and
executing workflows on Grids. We also survey several representative Grid
workflow systems developed by various projects world-wide to demonstrate the
comprehensiveness of the taxonomy. The taxonomy not only highlights the design
and engineering similarities and differences of state-of-the-art in Grid
workflow systems, but also identifies the areas that need further research.Comment: 29 pages, 15 figure
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