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Record W4253170635 · doi:10.24124/2012/bpgub873

A flexible simulation framework for processor scheduling algorithms in multicore systems.

2012· dissertation· en· W4253170635 on OpenAlex
Viswanathan Manickam

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Canadian institutionsCanadian HeritageLibrary and Archives Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceMulti-core processorTestbedScheduling (production processes)Fair-share schedulingGang schedulingUniprocessor systemDynamic priority schedulingTwo-level schedulingDistributed computingContext switchPOSIX ThreadsParallel computingEmbedded systemOperating systemThread (computing)MultiprocessingEngineering

Abstract

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In traditional uniprocessor systems, processor scheduling is the responsibility of the operating system. In high performance computing (HPC) domains that largely involve parallel processors, the responsibility of scheduling is usually left to the applications. So far, parallel computing has been confined to a small group of specialized HPC users. In this context, the hardware, operating system, and the applications have been mostly designed independently with minimal interactions. As the multicore processors are becoming the norm, parallel programming is expected to emerge as the mainstream software development approach. This new trend poses several challenges including performance, power management, system utilization, and predictable response. Such a demand is hard to meet without the cooperation from hardware, operating system, and applications. Particularly, an efficient scheduling of cores to the application threads is fundamentally important in assuring the above mentioned characteristics. We believe, operating system requires to take a larger responsibility in ensuring efficient multicore scheduling of application threads. To study the performance of a new scheduling algorithm for the future multicore systems with hundreds and thousands of cores, we need a flexible scheduling simulation testbed. Designing such a multicore scheduling simulation testbed and illustrating its functionality by studying some well known scheduling algorithms Linux and Solaris are the main contributions of this thesis. In addition to studying Linux and Solaris scheduling algorithms, we demonstrate the power, flexibility, and use of the proposed scheduling testbed by simulating two popular gang scheduling algorithms - adaptive first-come-first-served (AFCFS) and largest gang first served (LGFS). As a result of this performance study, we designed a new gang scheduling algorithm and we compared its performance with AFCFS. The proposed scheduling simulation testbed is developed using Java and expected to be released for public use.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.852
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it