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A Mean Field Model of Work Stealing in Large-Scale Systems

Nicolas Gast
Bruno Gaujal

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In this paper, we consider a generic model of computational grids, seen as several clusters of homogeneous processors. In such systems, a key issue when designing efficient job allocation policies is to balance the workload over the different resources. We present a Markovian model for performance evaluation of such a policy, namely work stealing (idle processors steal work from others) in large-scale heterogeneous systems. Using mean field theory, we show that when the size of the system grows, it converges to a system of deterministic ordinary differential equations that allows one to compute the expectation of performance functions (such as average response times) as well as the distributions of these functions.

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hal-00788862 , version 1 (15-02-2013)

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Nicolas Gast, Bruno Gaujal. A Mean Field Model of Work Stealing in Large-Scale Systems. ACM sigmetrics, 2010, New-York, United States. pp.13-24, ⟨10.1145/1811039.1811042⟩. ⟨hal-00788862⟩
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