On Energy-efficient Checkpointing in High-throughput Cycle-stealing Distributed Systems

Forshaw, Matthew; McGough, A. Stephen; Thomas, Nigel; Helfert, Markus; Krempels, Karl-Heinz; Donnellan, Brian

doi:10.5220/0004958302620267

On Energy-efficient Checkpointing in High-throughput Cycle-stealing Distributed Systems

Forshaw, Matthew; McGough, A. Stephen; Thomas, Nigel; Helfert, Markus; Krempels, Karl-Heinz; Donnellan, Brian

Authors

Matthew Forshaw

A. Stephen McGough

Nigel Thomas

Markus Helfert

Karl-Heinz Krempels

Brian Donnellan

Abstract

Checkpointing is a fault-tolerance mechanism commonly used in High Throughput Computing (HTC) environments to allow the execution of long-running computational tasks on compute resources subject to hardware and software failures and interruptions from resource owners. With increasing scrutiny of the energy consumption of IT infrastructures, it is important to understand the impact of checkpointing on the energy consumption of HTC environments. In this paper we demonstrate through trace-driven simulation on real-world datasets that existing checkpointing strategies are inadequate at maintaining an acceptable level of energy consumption whilst reducing the makespan of tasks. Furthermore, we identify factors important in deciding whether to employ checkpointing within an HTC environment, and propose novel strategies to curtail the energy consumption of checkpointing approaches.

Citation

Forshaw, M., McGough, A. S., Thomas, N., Helfert, M., Krempels, K., & Donnellan, B. (2014). On Energy-efficient Checkpointing in High-throughput Cycle-stealing Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS 2014), 3-4 April 2014, Barcelona, Spain (262-272). https://doi.org/10.5220/0004958302620267

Conference Name	Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Jan 11, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Feb 3, 2015
Pages	262-272
Book Title	Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS 2014), 3-4 April 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5220/0004958302620267
Keywords	Energy efficiency, Checkpointing, Migration, Fault tolerance, Desktop grids.