Influence of Network Characteristics on Application Performance in a Grid Environment |
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Authors: | Yoshinori Kitatsuji Katsuyuki Yamazaki Hiroshi Koide Masato Tsuru Yuji Oie |
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Affiliation: | (1) National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 3-8-1, Asano, Kokurakitaku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, Japan;(2) KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., 2-1-15, Ohara, Fujimino-shi, Saitama, Japan;(3) Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4, Kawatsu, Iizuka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan |
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Abstract: | In grid computing, a key issue is how limited network resources can be shared by communications by various applications more
effectively in order to improve application-level performance, e.g., by reducing the completion time for an individual application
and/or set of applications. Communication by an application changes the condition of the network resources, which may, in
turn, affect communications by other applications, and thus may degrade their performance. In this paper, we examine the characteristics
of traffic generated by typical grid applications, and the effect of the round-trip time and bottleneck bandwidth on the application-level
performance (i.e., completion time) of these applications. Our experiments showed that the impact of network conditions on
the performance of various applications and the impact of application traffic on network conditions differed considerably
depending on the application. These results suggest that effective allocation of network resources must take into account
the network-related properties of individual applications. |
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Keywords: | grid resource allocation application-level performance distributed computing traffic engineering |
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