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Disk I/O Performance Forecast Using Basic Prediction Techniques for Grid Computing

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From investigations on the impact of Disk I/O load on CPU load, we have found that the immanent Disk I/O load could affect the resource scheduler’s decision on assigning an appropriate storage resource to a job in which the Disk I/O operation is dominant. A possible but improper assignment can prolong the execution time of a task due to the contention for Disk I/O when the Disk I/O load in the machine is higher than the CPU load. Because the scheduler uses CPU load only for computing schedules, it does not even know the potential Disk I/O contention that could occur at the assigned resource. To avoid or at least alleviate these effects, we have developed a performance monitoring system and on-line performance forecast functions for providing forecast information to the Grid. In this paper, we examine the impact of Disk I/O workload on the CPU workload using our system, hereinafter referred to as Storage Weather Service(SWS). We evaluate several prediction methods in order to get an insight on varying Disk I/O workload.

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Lee, D., Ramakrishna, R.S. (2003). Disk I/O Performance Forecast Using Basic Prediction Techniques for Grid Computing. In: Malyshkin, V.E. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45145-7_24

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