Implementation of Distributed Loop Scheduling Schemes on the TeraGrid

Speaker:	Professor Anthony T. CHRONOPOULOS
		University of Texas
		San Antonio (UTSA)
		USA

Title:		"Implementation of Distributed Loop Scheduling Schemes
		 on the TeraGrid"

Date:		Monday, 14 May 2007

Time:		3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre G
		(Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

Grid computing can be used for high performance computations. However, a
serious difficulty in concurrent programming of such heterogeneous systems
is how to deal with scheduling and load balancing of such systems which
may consist of heterogeneous computers on different sites. Distributed
scheduling schemes suitable for parallel loops with independent iterations
on heterogeneous computer clusters have been proposed and analyzed in the
past. Here, we implement the previous schemes in MPICH-G2 and MPIg on the
TeraGrid. We present performance results for three loop scheduling schemes
on single and multi-site TeraGrid clusters.


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Biography:

Professor Anthony T. Chronopoulos received his Ph.D. at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1987. He is a senior member of IEEE and
has published 39 journal and 51 refereed conference proceedings
publications in the areas of Distributed Systems, Game Theory, Networks
and Security, Parallel Processing. He has been awarded 15 federal/state
government research grants. His work is cited in more than 260
non-co-authors' research articles.