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Static and dynamic load balance strategies for a class of applications

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1996
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Parallel/distributed systems offer a tremendous processing capacity. However, in order to take full advantage of it, good load distributions are needed. We study the task graph partition problem for a given parallel/distributed application which is modeled using data parallelism and is implemented in a transputer system in a mesh construction. Our approach uses domain partition to separate a given domain into a set of subdomains of equal size and each of which has at most four neighbors. We devise three methods to partition a given domain, these methods are compared based on several criteria. The impact of the number of processors used in implementation is also investigated based on several parameters, including processor speed, communication speed, and amount of computation and communication per data point. We discuss implementation of our approach in the application based on the existing features of the transputer system, and compare different versions of application through running a simulation system.
Title: Static and dynamic load balance strategies for a class of applications.
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Name(s): Pan, Jianping.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Wu, Jie, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 107 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Parallel/distributed systems offer a tremendous processing capacity. However, in order to take full advantage of it, good load distributions are needed. We study the task graph partition problem for a given parallel/distributed application which is modeled using data parallelism and is implemented in a transputer system in a mesh construction. Our approach uses domain partition to separate a given domain into a set of subdomains of equal size and each of which has at most four neighbors. We devise three methods to partition a given domain, these methods are compared based on several criteria. The impact of the number of processors used in implementation is also investigated based on several parameters, including processor speed, communication speed, and amount of computation and communication per data point. We discuss implementation of our approach in the application based on the existing features of the transputer system, and compare different versions of application through running a simulation system.
Identifier: 15298 (digitool), FADT15298 (IID), fau:12720 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
Electronic data processing--Distributed processing
Computer capacity--Management
Transputers
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