Analysis and modeling of social influence in high performance computing workloads

Shuai Zheng, Zon Yin Shae, Xiangliang Zhang, Hani T. Jamjoom, Liana Fong

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Abstract

Social influence among users (e.g., collaboration on a project) creates bursty behavior in the underlying high performance computing (HPC) workloads. Using representative HPC and cluster workload logs, this paper identifies, analyzes, and quantifies the level of social influence across HPC users. We show the existence of a social graph that is characterized by a pattern of dominant users and followers. This pattern also follows a power-law distribution, which is consistent with those observed in mainstream social networks. Given its potential impact on HPC workloads prediction and scheduling, we propose a fast-converging, computationally-efficient online learning algorithm for identifying social groups. Extensive evaluation shows that our online algorithm can (1) quickly identify the social relationships by using a small portion of incoming jobs and (2) can efficiently track group evolution over time. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages193-204
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642233999
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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