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January  2014, 10(1): 113-129. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2014.10.113

Performance analysis of large-scale parallel-distributed processing with backup tasks for cloud computing

Tsuguhito Hirai 1, , Hiroyuki Masuyama 2, , Shoji Kasahara 3, and  Yutaka Takahashi 2,

1. 

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Hommachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
2. 

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
3. 

Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192

Received  September 2012 Revised  June 2013 Published  October 2013

In cloud computing, a large-scale parallel-distributed processing service is provided where a huge task is split into a number of subtasks and those subtasks are processed on a cluster of machines called workers. In such a processing service, a worker which takes a long time for processing a subtask makes the response time long (the issue of stragglers). One of efficient methods to alleviate this issue is to execute the same subtask by another worker in preparation for the slow worker (backup tasks). In this paper, we consider the efficiency of backup tasks. We model the task-scheduling server as a single-server queue, in which the server consists of a number of workers. When a task enters the server, the task is split into subtasks, and each subtask is served by its own worker and an alternative distinct worker. In this processing, we explicitly derive task processing time distributions for the two cases that the subtask processing time of a worker obeys Weibull or Pareto distribution. We compare the mean response time and the total processing time under backup-task scheduling with those under normal scheduling. Numerical examples show that the efficiency of backup-task scheduling significantly depends on workers' processing time distribution.
Keywords: task scheduling, queueing analysis., Cloud computing, parallel-distributed processing, backup tasks.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 60K25, 60J10; Secondary: 68M2.
Citation: Tsuguhito Hirai, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Shoji Kasahara, Yutaka Takahashi. Performance analysis of large-scale parallel-distributed processing with backup tasks for cloud computing. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2014, 10 (1) : 113-129. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2014.10.113
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L. A. Barroso and U. Hölzle, "The Datacenter as A Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines,", Morgan & Claypool, (2009).  doi: 10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y200905CAC006.  Google Scholar

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W. Cirne, D. Paranhos, F. Brasileiro and L. F. W. Góes, On the efficacy, efficiency and emergent behavior of task replication in large distributed systems,, Parallel Computing, 33 (2007), 213.  doi: 10.1016/j.parco.2007.01.002.  Google Scholar

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J. Dean and S. Ghemawat, MapReduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters,, Communications of the ACM, 51 (2008), 107.  doi: 10.1145/1327452.1327492.  Google Scholar

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J. Dejun, G. Pierre and C.-H. Chi, EC2 performance analysis for resource provisioning of service-oriented applications,, Proc. Service-Oriented Computing: ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 Workshops, 6275 (2010), 197.  doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-16132-2_19.  Google Scholar

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N. Yigitbasi, A. Iosup, D. Epema and S. Ostermann, C-Meter: A framework for performance analysis of computing clouds,, Proc. 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, (2009), 472.  doi: 10.1109/CCGRID.2009.40.  Google Scholar

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