Adaptive sampling-based profiling techniques for optimizing the distributed JVM runtime

Extending the standard Java virtual machine (JVM) for cluster-awareness is a transparent approach to scaling out multithreaded Java applications. While this clustering solution is gaining momentum in recent years, efficient runtime support for fine-grained object sharing over the distributed JVM remains a challenge. The system efficiency is strongly connected to the global object sharing profile that determines the overall communication cost. Once the sharing or correlation between threads is known, access locality can be optimized by collocating highly correlated threads via dynamic thread migrations. Although correlation tracking techniques have been studied in some page-based sof Tware DSM systems, they would entail prohibitively high overheads and low accuracy when ported to fine-grained object-based systems. In this paper, we propose a lightweight sampling-based profiling technique for tracking inter-thread sharing. To preserve locality across migrations, we also propose a stack sampling mechanism for profiling the set of objects which are tightly coupled with a migrant thread. Sampling rates in both techniques can vary adaptively to strike a balance between preciseness and overhead. Such adaptive techniques are particularly useful for applications whose sharing patterns could change dynamically. The profiling results can be exploited for effective thread-to-core placement and dynamic load balancing in a distributed object sharing environment. We present the design and preliminary performance result of our distributed JVM with the profiling implemented. Experimental results show that the profiling is able to obtain over 95% accurate global sharing profiles at a cost of only a few percents of execution time increase for fine- to medium- grained applications. © 2010 IEEE.published_or_final_versionThe 24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2010), Atlanta, GA., 19-23 April 2010. In Proceedings of the 24th IPDPS, 2010, p. 1-1

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