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Scientific workflows are pipelines of interdependent tasks. They are increasingly executed on shared Kubernetes clusters via workflow engines such as Nextflow. Their energy consumption matters for both cost and sustainability. It is…

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While detailed resource usage monitoring is possible on the low-level using proper tools, associating such usage with higher-level abstractions in the application layer that actually cause the resource usage in the first place presents a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Joel Witzke , Ansgar Lößer , Vasilis Bountris , Florian Schintke , Björn Scheuermann

Scientific workflow management systems like Nextflow support large-scale data analysis by abstracting away the details of scientific workflows. In these systems, workflows consist of several abstract tasks, of which instances are run in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Jonathan Bader , Lauritz Thamsen , Svetlana Kulagina , Jonathan Will , Henning Meyerhenke , Odej Kao

The aim of this paper is to provide a description of deep-learning-based scheduling approach for academic-purpose high-performance computing systems. The share of academic-purpose distributed computing systems (DCS) reaches 17.4 percents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Andrey Gritsenko

Workflows provide an expressive programming model for fine-grained control of large-scale applications in distributed computing environments. Accurate estimates of complex workflow execution metrics on large-scale machines have several key…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Alok Singh , Mai Nguyen , Shweta Purawat , Daniel Crawl , Ilkay Altintas

Configuring a storage system to better serve an application is a challenging task complicated by a multidimensional, discrete configuration space and the high cost of space exploration (e.g., by running the application with different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Lauro Beltrão Costa , Abmar Barros , Samer Al-Kiswany , Hao Yang , Emalayan Vairavanathan , Matei Ripeanu

Task-based programming models are emerging as a promising alternative to make the most of multi-/many-core systems. These programming models rely on runtime systems, and their goal is to improve application performance by properly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Antoni Navarro , Arthur F. Lorenzon , Eduard Ayguadé , Vicenç Beltran

Complex scientific workflows can process large amounts of data using thousands of tasks. The turnaround times of these workflows are often affected by various latencies such as the resource discovery, scheduling and data access latencies…

Reducing energy consumption is one of the key challenges in computing technology. One factor that contributes to high energy consumption is that all parts of the program are considered equally significant for the accuracy of the end-result.…

Large scientific collaborations often have multiple scientists accessing the same set of files while doing different analyses, which create repeated accesses to the large amounts of shared data located far away. These data accesses have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Caitlin Sim , Kesheng Wu , Alex Sim , Inder Monga , Chin Guok , Frank Wurthwein , Diego Davila , Harvey Newman , Justas Balcas

Scientific workflows facilitate the automation of data analysis, and are used to process increasing amounts of data. Therefore, they tend to be resource-intensive and long-running, leading to significant energy consumption and carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kathleen West , Magnus Reid , Yehia Elkhatib , Lauritz Thamsen

In the data center, unexpected downtime caused by memory failures can lead to a decline in the stability of the server and even the entire information technology infrastructure, which harms the business. Therefore, whether the memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Chengdong Yao

Scientific workflow has become essential in software engineering because it provides a structured approach to designing, executing, and analyzing scientific experiments. Software developers and researchers have developed hundreds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Khairul Alam , Banani Roy , Alexander Serebrenik

Over the last two decades, scientific workflow management systems (SWfMS) have emerged as a means to facilitate the design, execution, and monitoring of reusable scientific data processing pipelines. At the same time, the amounts of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-29 Marc Bux , Ulf Leser

Executing workflows on volunteer computing resources where individual tasks may be forced to relinquish their resource for the resource's primary use leads to unpredictability and often significantly increases execution time. Task…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Andrew Stephen McGough , Matthew Forshaw

With the increasing and elastic demand for cloud resources, finding an optimal task scheduling mechanism become a challenge for cloud service providers. Due to the time-varying nature of resource demands in length and processing over time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Seyedakbar Mostafavi , Vesal Hakami

To extract value from evergrowing volumes of data, coming from a number of different sources, and to drive decision making, organizations frequently resort to the composition of data processing workflows, since they are expressive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sérgio Esteves , Helena Galhardas , Luís Veiga

Increasing data volumes in scientific experiments necessitate the use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources for data analysis. In many scientific fields, the data generated from scientific instruments and supercomputer simulations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sam Nickolay , Eun-Sung Jung , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

A computational workflow, also known as workflow, consists of tasks that must be executed in a specific order to attain a specific goal. Often, in fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, and data science, among others, these workflows…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-14 George Papadimitriou , Hongwei Jin , Cong Wang , Rajiv Mayani , Krishnan Raghavan , Anirban Mandal , Prasanna Balaprakash , Ewa Deelman

We propose WSMC, a workload-specific memory capacity configuration approach for the Spark workloads, which guides users on the memory capacity configuration with the accurate prediction of the workload's memory requirement under various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Yi Liang , Shilu Chang , Chao Su