Sizey: Memory-Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflow Tasks

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العنوان: Sizey: Memory-Efficient Execution of Scientific Workflow Tasks
المؤلفون: Bader, Jonathan, Skalski, Fabian, Lehmann, Fabian, Scheinert, Dominik, Will, Jonathan, Thamsen, Lauritz, Kao, Odej
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
الوصف: As the amount of available data continues to grow in fields as diverse as bioinformatics, physics, and remote sensing, the importance of scientific workflows in the design and implementation of reproducible data analysis pipelines increases. When developing workflows, resource requirements must be defined for each type of task in the workflow. Typically, task types vary widely in their computational demands because they are simply wrappers for arbitrary black-box analysis tools. Furthermore, the resource consumption for the same task type can vary considerably as well due to different inputs. Since underestimating memory resources leads to bottlenecks and task failures, workflow developers tend to overestimate memory resources. However, overprovisioning of memory wastes resources and limits cluster throughput. Addressing this problem, we propose Sizey, a novel online memory prediction method for workflow tasks. During workflow execution, Sizey simultaneously trains multiple machine learning models and then dynamically selects the best model for each workflow task. To evaluate the quality of the model, we introduce a novel resource allocation quality (RAQ) score based on memory prediction accuracy and efficiency. Sizey's prediction models are retrained and re-evaluated online during workflow execution, continuously incorporating metrics from completed tasks. Our evaluation with a prototype implementation of Sizey uses metrics from six real-world scientific workflows from the popular nf-core framework and shows a median reduction in memory waste over time of 24.68% compared to the respective best-performing state-of-the-art baseline.
Comment: Paper accepted in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16353
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.16353
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv