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Berenbrink, Petra, Friedetzky, Thomas and Martin, R. (2004) Dynamic diffusion load balancing. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science research report). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We present the first analysis of a simple discrete diffusion scheme for dynamic load balancing. In each round (1-epsilon)n tasks are (arbitrarily) generated over a set of n processors, load is balanced amongst neighbours in some underlying graph, then a single task is deleted from each non-empty processor. We show that the system is stable, in that the total load remains bounded (as a function of n alone) over time. Our proof only requires that the underlying "communication" graph be connected, and holds even when epsilon = 0. We further show that the upper bound we obtain is asymptotically tight (up to a moderate multiplicative constant) by demonstrating a corresponding lower bound on the system load for the particular example of a linear array (or path). We also show some simple negative results (i.e., instability) for work-stealing based diffusion-type algorithms.
| Item Type: | Report | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Data structures (Computer science), Software engineering | ||||
| Series Name: | Department of Computer Science research report | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science | ||||
| Official Date: | July 2004 | ||||
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| Number: | Number 402 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||
| DOI: | CS-RR-402 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Computer Science | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), MITACS (Network), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||
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