Multi-objective Robust Static Mapping of Independent Tasks on Grids
English
Dorronsoro, Bernabé[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Bouvry, Pascal[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Cañero, J. Alberto[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
World Conference in Computational Intelligence (WCCI)
IEEE
3389-3396
Yes
No
International
978-1-4244-8126-2
World Conference in Computational Intelligence (WCCI)
July 2010
Barcelona
Spain
[en] We study the problem of efficiently allocating incoming independent tasks onto the resources of a Grid system. Typically, it is assumed that the estimated time to compute each task on every machine is known. We are making the same assumption in this work, but we allow the existence of inaccuracies in these values. Our schedule will be robust versus such inaccuracies, ensuring that even when the estimated time to compute all the tasks is increased by a given percentage, the makespan of the schedule (i.e., the time when the last machine finishes its tasks) will not grow behind that percentage. We propose a new multi-objective definition of the problem, optimizing at the same time the makespan of the schedule and its robustness. Four well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are used to find competitive results to the new problem. Finally, a new population initialization method for scheduling problems is proposed, leading to more efficient and accurate algorithms.
University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing - ULHPC