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\author{%
\IEEEauthorblockN{%
- Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa and
- David Laiymani and
- Arnaud Giersch and
- Lilia Ziane Khodja and
- Raphaël Couturier
+ Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
+ David Laiymani\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
+ Arnaud Giersch\IEEEauthorrefmark{1},
+ Lilia Ziane Khodja\IEEEauthorrefmark{2} and
+ Raphaël Couturier\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}
}
- \IEEEauthorblockA{%
- Femto-ST Institute - DISC Department\\
- Université de Franche-Comté\\
- Belfort\\
- Email: \email{{raphael.couturier,arnaud.giersch,david.laiymani,charles.ramamonjisoa}@univ-fcomte.fr}
+ \IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}%
+ Femto-ST Institute -- DISC Department\\
+ Université de Franche-Comté,
+ IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard\\
+ 19 avenue du Maréchal Juin, BP 527, 90016 Belfort cedex, France\\
+ Email: \email{{charles.ramamonjisoa,david.laiymani,arnaud.giersch,raphael.couturier}@univ-fcomte.fr}
+ }
+ \IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}%
+ Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest\\
+ 200 avenue de la Vieille Tour, 33405 Talence cedex, France \\
+ Email: \email{lilia.ziane@inria.fr}
}
}
\maketitle
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-\LZK{Adresse de Lilia: Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, 200 Avenue de la Vieille Tour, 33405 Talence Cedex, France \\ Email: lilia.ziane@inria.fr}
\begin{abstract}
-The abstract goes here.
+In recent years, the scalability of large-scale implementation in a
+distributed environment of algorithms becoming more and more complex has
+always been hampered by the limits of physical computing resources
+capacity. One solution is to run the program in a virtual environment
+simulating a real interconnected computers architecture. The results are
+convincing and useful solutions are obtained with far fewer resources
+than in a real platform. However, challenges remain for the convergence
+and efficiency of a class of algorithms that concern us here, namely
+numerical parallel iterative algorithms executed in asynchronous mode,
+especially in a large scale level. Actually, such algorithm requires a
+balance and a compromise between computation and communication time
+during the execution. Two important factors determine the success of the
+experimentation: the convergence of the iterative algorithm on a large
+scale and the execution time reduction in asynchronous mode. Once again,
+from the current work, a simulated environment like SimGrid provides
+accurate results which are difficult or even impossible to obtain in a
+physical platform by exploiting the flexibility of the simulator on the
+computing units clusters and the network structure design. Our
+experimental outputs showed a saving of up to \np[\%]{40} for the algorithm
+execution time in asynchronous mode compared to the synchronous one with
+a residual precision up to \np{E-11}. Such successful results open
+perspectives on experimentations for running the algorithm on a
+simulated large scale growing environment and with larger problem size.
+
+% no keywords for IEEE conferences
+% Keywords: Algorithm distributed iterative asynchronous simulation SimGrid
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
the field. Indeed, the increasing complexity of these requested
applications combined with a continuous increase of their sizes lead to
write distributed and parallel algorithms requiring significant hardware
-resources (grid computing, clusters, broadband network, etc\dots{}) but
+resources (grid computing, clusters, broadband network, etc.) but
also a non-negligible CPU execution time. We consider in this paper a
class of highly efficient parallel algorithms called iterative executed
in a distributed environment. As their name suggests, these algorithm
-solves a given problem that might be NP- complete complex by successive
+solves a given problem that might be NP-complete complex by successive
iterations ($X_{n +1} = f(X_{n})$) from an initial value $X_{0}$ to find
an approximate value $X^*$ of the solution with a very low
residual error. Several well-known methods demonstrate the convergence
section will give a brief description of iterative asynchronous model.
Then, the simulation framework SimGrid will be presented with the
settings to create various distributed architectures. The algorithm of
-the multi -splitting method used by GMRES written with MPI primitives
+the multi-splitting method used by GMRES written with MPI primitives
and its adaptation to SimGrid with SMPI (Simulated MPI) will be in the
next section. At last, the experiments results carried out will be
presented before the conclusion which we will announce the opening of
\section{The asynchronous iteration model}
-Décrire le modèle asynchrone. Je m'en charge (DL)
-
-\section{SimGrid}
-
-Décrire SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid} (Arnaud)
-
+As exposed in the introduction, parallel iterative methods are now
+widely used in many scientific domains. They can be classified in three main classes
+depending on how iterations and communications are managed (for more
+details readers can refer to \cite{bcvc02:ip}). In the
+\textit{Synchronous Iterations - Synchronous Communications (SISC)}
+model data are exchanged at the end of each iteration. All the
+processors must begin the same iteration at the same time and
+important idle times on processors are generated. The
+\textit{Synchronous Iterations - Asynchronous Communications (SIAC)}
+model can be compared to the previous one except that data required on
+another processor are sent asynchronously i.e. without stopping
+current computations. This technique allows to partially overlap
+communications by computations but unfortunately, the overlapping is
+only partial and important idle times remain. It is clear that, in a
+grid computing context, where the number of computational nodes is large,
+heterogeneous and widely distributed, the idle times generated by
+synchronizations are very penalizing. One way to overcome this problem
+is to use the \textit{Asynchronous Iterations - Asynchronous
+ Communications (AIAC)} model. Here, local computations do not need
+to wait for required data. Processors can then perform their
+iterations with the data present at that time. Figure \ref{fig:aiac}
+illustrates this model where the grey blocks represent the computation
+phases, the white spaces the idle times and the arrows the
+communications. With this algorithmic model, the number of iterations
+required before the convergence is generally greater than for the two
+former classes. But, and as detailed in \cite{bcvc06:ij}, AIAC
+algorithms can significantly reduce overall execution times by
+suppressing idle times due to synchronizations especially in a grid
+computing context.
+
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
+ \centering
+ \includegraphics[width=8cm]{AIAC.pdf}
+ \caption{The Asynchronous Iterations - Asynchronous Communications model }
+ \label{fig:aiac}
+\end{figure}
+\section{SimGrid}
+SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} is a simulation
+framework to sudy the behavior of large-scale distributed systems. As its name
+says, it emanates from the grid computing community, but is nowadays used to
+study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems.
+%- open source, developped since 1999, one of the major solution in the field
+%
+SimGrid provides several programming interfaces: MSG to simulate Concurrent
+Sequential Processes, SimDAG to simulate DAGs of (parallel) tasks, and SMPI to
+run real applications written in MPI~\cite{MPI}. Apart from the native C
+interface, SimGrid provides bindings for the C++, Java, Lua and Ruby programming
+languages. The SMPI interface supports applications written in C or Fortran,
+with little or no modifications.
+%- implements most of MPI-2 \cite{ref} standard [CHECK]
+
+%%% explain simulation
+%- simulated processes folded in one real process
+%- simulates interactions on the network, fluid model
+%- able to skip long-lasting computations
+%- traces + visu?
+
+%%% platforms
+%- describe resources and their interconnection, with their properties
+%- XML files
+
+%%% validation + refs
+
+\AG{Décrire SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} (Arnaud)}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Simulation of the multisplitting method}
\vdots\\
B_L
\end{array} \right)\]
-in such a way that successive rows of matrix $A$ and both vectors $x$ and $b$ are assigned to one cluster, where for all $l,m\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$ $A_{lm}$ is a rectangular block of $A$ of size $n_l\times n_m$, $X_l$ and $B_l$ are sub-vectors of $x$ and $b$, respectively, each of size $n_l$ and $\sum_{l} n_l=\sum_{m} n_m=n$.
+in such a way that successive rows of matrix $A$ and both vectors $x$ and $b$ are assigned to one cluster, where for all $l,m\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$ $A_{lm}$ is a rectangular block of $A$ of size $n_l\times n_m$, $X_l$ and $B_l$ are sub-vectors of $x$ and $b$, respectively, of size $n_l$ each and $\sum_{l} n_l=\sum_{m} n_m=n$.
The multisplitting method proceeds by iteration to solve in parallel the linear system on $L$ clusters of processors, in such a way each sub-system
\begin{equation}
\end{equation}
is solved independently by a cluster and communications are required to update the right-hand side sub-vector $Y_l$, such that the sub-vectors $X_m$ represent the data dependencies between the clusters. As each sub-system (\ref{eq:4.1}) is solved in parallel by a cluster of processors, our multisplitting method uses an iterative method as an inner solver which is easier to parallelize and more scalable than a direct method. In this work, we use the parallel algorithm of GMRES method~\cite{ref1} which is one of the most used iterative method by many researchers.
-\begin{algorithm}
-\caption{A multisplitting solver with GMRES method}
+\begin{figure}
+ %%% IEEE instructions forbid to use an algorithm environment here, use figure
+ %%% instead
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\Input $A_l$ (sparse sub-matrix), $B_l$ (right-hand side sub-vector)
\Output $X_l$ (solution sub-vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
\State \Return $X_l^k$
\EndFunction
\end{algorithmic}
+\caption{A multisplitting solver with GMRES method}
\label{algo:01}
-\end{algorithm}
+\end{figure}
-Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} shows the main key points of the multisplitting method to solve a large sparse linear system. This algorithm is based on an outer-inner iteration method where the parallel synchronous GMRES method is used to solve the inner iteration. It is executed in parallel by each cluster of processors. For all $l,m\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$, the matrices and vectors with the subscript $l$ represent the local data for cluster $l$, while $\{A_{lm}\}_{m\neq l}$ are off-diagonal matrices of sparse matrix $A$ and $\{X_m\}_{m\neq l}$ contain vector elements of solution $x$ shared with neighboring clusters. At every outer iteration $k$, asynchronous communications are performed between processors of the local cluster and those of distant clusters (lines $6$ and $7$ in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}). The shared vector elements of the solution $x$ are exchanged by message passing using MPI non-blocking communication routines.
+Algorithm on Figure~\ref{algo:01} shows the main key points of the
+multisplitting method to solve a large sparse linear system. This algorithm is
+based on an outer-inner iteration method where the parallel synchronous GMRES
+method is used to solve the inner iteration. It is executed in parallel by each
+cluster of processors. For all $l,m\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$, the matrices and vectors
+with the subscript $l$ represent the local data for cluster $l$, while
+$\{A_{lm}\}_{m\neq l}$ are off-diagonal matrices of sparse matrix $A$ and
+$\{X_m\}_{m\neq l}$ contain vector elements of solution $x$ shared with
+neighboring clusters. At every outer iteration $k$, asynchronous communications
+are performed between processors of the local cluster and those of distant
+clusters (lines $6$ and $7$ in Figure~\ref{algo:01}). The shared vector
+elements of the solution $x$ are exchanged by message passing using MPI
+non-blocking communication routines.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\section{Experimental results}
-When the ``real'' application runs in the simulation environment and produces
+When the \emph{real} application runs in the simulation environment and produces
the expected results, varying the input parameters and the program arguments
allows us to compare outputs from the code execution. We have noticed from this
study that the results depend on the following parameters: (1) at the network
network latency (lat). (2) Hosts power (GFlops) can also influence on the
results. And finally, (3) when submitting job batches for execution, the
arguments values passed to the program like the maximum number of iterations or
-the ``external'' precision are critical to ensure not only the convergence of the
+the \emph{external} precision are critical to ensure not only the convergence of the
algorithm but also to get the main objective of the experimentation of the
simulation in having an execution time in asynchronous less than in synchronous
-mode, in others words, in having a ``speedup'' less than 1 (Speedup = Execution
-time in synchronous mode / Execution time in asynchronous mode).
+mode, in others words, in having a \emph{speedup} less than 1
+({speedup}${}={}${execution time in synchronous mode}${}/{}${execution time in
+asynchronous mode}).
A priori, obtaining a speedup less than 1 would be difficult in a local area
network configuration where the synchronous mode will take advantage on the rapid
As a first step, the algorithm was run on a network consisting of two clusters
containing fifty hosts each, totaling one hundred hosts. Various combinations of
the above factors have providing the results shown in Table~\ref{tab.cluster.2x50} with a matrix size
-ranging from Nx = Ny = Nz = 62 to 171 elements or from $62^{3} = \np{238328}$ to
+ranging from $N_x = N_y = N_z = 62 \text{ to } 171$ elements or from $62^{3} = \np{238328}$ to
$171^{3} = \np{5211000}$ entries.
Then we have changed the network configuration using three clusters containing
\item Description of the cluster architecture;
\item Maximum number of internal and external iterations;
\item Internal and external precisions;
- \item Matrix size NX, NY and NZ;
- \item Matrix diagonal value = 6.0;
+ \item Matrix size $N_x$, $N_y$ and $N_z$;
+ \item Matrix diagonal value: \np{6.0};
\item Execution Mode: synchronous or asynchronous.
\end{itemize}
\centering
\caption{2 clusters X 50 nodes}
\label{tab.cluster.2x50}
- \AG{Les images manquent dans le dépôt Git. Si ce sont vraiment des tableaux, utiliser un format vectoriel (eps ou pdf), et surtout pas de jpeg!}
+ \AG{Ces tableaux (\ref{tab.cluster.2x50}, \ref{tab.cluster.3x33} et
+ \ref{tab.cluster.3x67}) sont affreux. Utiliser un format vectoriel (eps ou
+ pdf) ou, mieux, les réécrire en \LaTeX{}. Réécrire les légendes proprement
+ également (\texttt{\textbackslash{}times} au lieu de \texttt{X} par ex.)}
\includegraphics[width=209pt]{img1.jpg}
\end{table}
\centering
\caption{3 clusters X 33 nodes}
\label{tab.cluster.3x33}
- \AG{Le fichier manque.}
+ \AG{Refaire le tableau.}
\includegraphics[width=209pt]{img2.jpg}
\end{table}
\centering
\caption{3 clusters X 67 nodes}
\label{tab.cluster.3x67}
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+ \AG{Refaire le tableau.}
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\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{img3.jpg}
\end{table}
that it was difficult to have a combination which gives an efficiency of
asynchronous below \np[\%]{80}. Indeed, for a matrix size of 62 elements, equality
between the performance of the two modes (synchronous and asynchronous) is
-achieved with an inter cluster of \np[Mbits/s]{10} and a latency of \np{E-1} ms. To
+achieved with an inter cluster of \np[Mbits/s]{10} and a latency of \np[ms]{E-1}. To
challenge an efficiency by \np[\%]{78} with a matrix size of 100 points, it was
necessary to degrade the inter cluster network bandwidth from 5 to 2 Mbit/s.
-A last attempt was made for a configuration of three clusters but more power
+A last attempt was made for a configuration of three clusters but more powerful
with 200 nodes in total. The convergence with a speedup of \np[\%]{90} was obtained
with a bandwidth of \np[Mbits/s]{1} as shown in Table~\ref{tab.cluster.3x67}.
\section{Conclusion}
+The experimental results on executing a parallel iterative algorithm in
+asynchronous mode on an environment simulating a large scale of virtual
+computers organized with interconnected clusters have been presented.
+Our work has demonstrated that using such a simulation tool allow us to
+reach the following three objectives:
+
+\newcounter{numberedCntD}
+\begin{enumerate}
+\item To have a flexible configurable execution platform resolving the
+hard exercise to access to very limited but so solicited physical
+resources;
+\item to ensure the algorithm convergence with a raisonnable time and
+iteration number ;
+\item and finally and more importantly, to find the correct combination
+of the cluster and network specifications permitting to save time in
+executing the algorithm in asynchronous mode.
+\setcounter{numberedCntD}{\theenumi}
+\end{enumerate}
+Our results have shown that in certain conditions, asynchronous mode is
+speeder up to \np[\%]{40} than executing the algorithm in synchronous mode
+which is not negligible for solving complex practical problems with more
+and more increasing size.
+
+ Several studies have already addressed the performance execution time of
+this class of algorithm. The work presented in this paper has
+demonstrated an original solution to optimize the use of a simulation
+tool to run efficiently an iterative parallel algorithm in asynchronous
+mode in a grid architecture.
\section*{Acknowledgment}
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