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Scalability Model Based on the Concept of Granularity

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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

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In the recent years it can be observed increasing popularity of parallel processing using multi-core processors, local clusters, GPU and others. Moreover, currently one of the main requirements the IT users is the reduction of maintaining cost of the computer infrastructure. It causes that the performance evaluation of the parallel applications becomes one of the most important problem. Then obtained results allows efficient use of available resources. In traditional methods of performance evaluation the results are based on wall-clock time measurements. This approach requires consecutive application executions and includes a time-consuming data analysis. In the paper an alternative approach is proposed. The decomposition of parallel application execution time onto computation time and overheads related to parallel execution is use to calculate the granularity of application and then determine its efficiency. Finally the application scalability can be evaluates.

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Acknowledgments

Calculations have been carried out using resources providing by Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing (http://wcss.pl), grant No. 266.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jan Kwiatkowski

  2. Department of Artificial Inteligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Lukasz Olech

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  1. Czestochowa University of Technolog, Czestochowa, Poland

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, California, USA

    Ewa Deelman

  3. Electrical Engineering & Comput. Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  4. Czestochowa University of Technology, Institute of Computer & Information Sci., Czestochowa, Poland

    Konrad Karczewski

  5. Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

    Jacek Kitowski

  6. Systèmes d’informations, Big Data et Rec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

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Kwiatkowski, J., Olech, L. (2016). Scalability Model Based on the Concept of Granularity. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Deelman, E., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32152-3_18

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