Affiliations: [a] Research Scholar-I K Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, India | [b] Department of CSE-UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India | [c] Department of ECE, Giani Zail Singh Campus College of Engg and Tech, Bathinda, India | [d] Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University, Bathinda, India
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Corresponding author: Nirmal Kaur, Research Scholar-I K Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala 144603, India. E-mail:nirmaljul19@gmail.com
Abstract: Power optimization is emerging as one of the
crucial performance parameter for High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms
owing to their excessive energy consumption. Traditionally, judicious
allocation of tasks to yield lower makespan was the major concern and
duplication based strategies scored an edge over the list based scheduling
techniques. However, the former gained its objectives at the cost of
increased computational energy consumption. In this paper, an Energy Aware
Duplication Scheduling algorithm (EADS) has been developed for scheduling a
set of dependent tasks on Heterogeneous Cluster (HC) exploiting Dynamic
Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) technique for tasks and their
duplicates without affecting schedule length. The performance is analyzed on
random and regular task graph suite, with wide parametric variations, in
comparison to duplication and list based scheduling algorithms with and
without DVFS. From the results gathered, it is indicated that there exists
potential for saving energy in the duplication-based schedules, which EADS
algorithm is able to exploit well. Unlike the available works, this paper
analyzes the total system energy consumption, which accounts for computation
energy (busy and idle states) and communication energy of the cluster
interconnect.
Keywords: Heterogeneous cluster, power dissipation, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, list based scheduling, duplication based scheduling
