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On the Performance of Oracle Grid Engine Queuing System for Computing Intensive Applications

  • Kolici, Vladi (Department of Electronic and Telecommunication, Polytechnic University of Tirana) ;
  • Herrero, Albert (Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) ;
  • Xhafa, Fatos (Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
  • Received : 2014.10.14
  • Accepted : 2014.11.20
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper we present some research results on computing intensive applications using modern high performance architectures and from the perspective of high computational needs. Computing intensive applications are an important family of applications in distributed computing domain. They have been object of study using different distributed computing paradigms and infrastructures. Such applications distinguish for their demanding needs for CPU computing, independently of the amount of data associated with the problem instance. Among computing intensive applications, there are applications based on simulations, aiming to maximize system resources for processing large computations for simulation. In this research work, we consider an application that simulates scheduling and resource allocation in a Grid computing system using Genetic Algorithms. In such application, a rather large number of simulations is needed to extract meaningful statistical results about the behavior of the simulation results. We study the performance of Oracle Grid Engine for such application running in a Cluster of high computing capacities. Several scenarios were generated to measure the response time and queuing time under different workloads and number of nodes in the cluster.

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