PPoPP 2016
Sat 12 - Wed 16 March 2016 Barcelona, Spain
Mon 14 Mar 2016 17:10 - 17:35 at Mallorca+Menorca - GPUs and Scheduling Chair(s): Christophe Dubach

This paper addresses the problem of designing scaling strategies for elastic data stream processing. Elasticity allows applications to rapidly change their configuration on-the-fly (e.g., the amount of used resources) in response to dynamic workload fluctuations. In this work we face this problem by adopting the Model Predictive Control technique, a control-theoretic method aimed at finding the optimal application configuration along a limited prediction horizon in the future by solving an online optimization problem. Our control strategies are designed to address latency constraints, using Queueing Theory models, and energy consumption by changing the number of used cores and the CPU frequency through the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) support available in the modern multicore CPUs. The proactive capabilities, in addition to the latency- and energy-awareness, represent the novel features of our approach. To validate our methodology, we develop a thorough set of experiments on a high-frequency trading application. The results demonstrate the high-degree of flexibility and configurability of our approach, and show the effectiveness of our elastic scaling strategies compared with existing state-of-the-art techniques used in similar scenarios.

Mon 14 Mar

Displayed time zone: Belfast change

16:20 - 18:00
GPUs and SchedulingMain conference at Mallorca+Menorca
Chair(s): Christophe Dubach University of Edinburgh
16:20
25m
Talk
Gunrock: A High-Performance Graph Processing Library on the GPUDistinguished Paper AwardArtifact Evaluation
Main conference
Yangzihao Wang , Andrew Davidson University of California, Davis, Yuechao Pan University of California, Davis, Yuduo Wu University of California, Davis, Andy Riffel University of California, Davis, John D. Owens University of California, Davis
Link to publication DOI
16:45
25m
Talk
GPU Multisplit
Main conference
Saman Ashkiani University of California, Davis, Andrew Davidson University of California, Davis, Ulrich Meyer Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, John D. Owens University of California, Davis
Link to publication DOI
17:10
25m
Talk
Keep Calm and React with Foresight: Strategies for Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Elastic Data Stream Processing Artifact Evaluation
Main conference
Tiziano De Matteis University of Pisa, Gabriele Mencagli University of Pisa
Link to publication DOI
17:35
25m
Talk
Work Stealing for Interactive Services to Meet Target Latency
Main conference
Jing Li Washington University in St. Louis, Kunal Agrawal Washington University in St. Louis, Sameh Elnikety Microsoft Research, Yuxiong He Microsoft Research, I-Ting Angelina Lee Washington University in St. Louis, Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis, Kathryn S McKinley Microsoft Research
Link to publication DOI