Discovering job preemptions in the open science grid

Zhe Zhang, Derek Weitzel, Brian Bockelman, David Swanson

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Abstract

The Open Science Grid(OSG)[9] is a world-wide computing system which facilitates distributed computing for scientific research. It can distribute a computationally intensive job to geo-distributed clusters and process job's tasks in parallel. For compute clusters on the OSG, physical resources may be shared between OSG and cluster's local user-submitted jobs, with local jobs preempting OSG-based ones. As a result, job preemptions occur frequently in OSG, sometimes significantly delaying job completion time. We have collected job data from OSG over a period of more than 80 days. We present an analysis of the data, characterizing the preemption patterns and different types of jobs. Based on observations, we have grouped OSG jobs into 5 categories and analyze the runtime statistics for each category. we further choose different statistical distributions to estimate probability density function of job runtime for different classes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPractice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2018
Subtitle of host publicationSeamless Creativity, PEARC 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450364461
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 22 2018
Event2018 Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference: Seamless Creativity, PEARC 2018 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: Jul 22 2017Jul 26 2017

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Other

Other2018 Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference: Seamless Creativity, PEARC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period7/22/177/26/17

Keywords

  • Distribution
  • Estimation
  • Failure pattern
  • Job failure
  • Job runtime
  • OSG
  • Pilot job
  • Preemption
  • Probability Density Function
  • Spatial locality
  • Temporal locality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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