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- Aldinucci, Marco, et al.
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Preface
- 2017
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Ingår i: The international journal of high performance computing applications. - : Sage Publications. - 1094-3420 .- 1741-2846. ; 31:3, s. 179-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Alexandru, Iordan, et al.
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Investigating the Potential of Energy-savings Using a Fine-grained Task Based Programming Model on Multi-cores
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we study the relation between energy-efficiencyand parallel executions when implemented with a fine-grained task-centricprogramming model. Using a simulation framework comprised of an ar-chitectural simulator and a power and area estimation tool, we haveinvestigated the potential energy-savings when employing parallelism onmulti-cores system. In our experiments with 2 - 8 multi-cores systems,we employed frequency and voltage scaling in order to keep the relativeperformance of the systems constant and measured the energy-efficiencyusing the Energy-delay-product. Also, we compared the energy consump-tion of the parallel execution against the serial one. Our results showthat through judicious choice of load balancing parameters, significantimprovements of around 200 % in energy consumption can be acheived.
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- Andersen-Hoppe, Annemette, et al.
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Deltagarkultur : i teori och praktik
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Texterna i denna digitala antologi är författade av studenterna och lärarna på kursen ”Deltagarkultur”, som är en del av Interreg-projektet Öresundsregionen som kreativ metapol. Texterna är författade av tjänstemän på kulturförvaltningar i Skåne och Danmark, samt av lärare från Malmö högskola. En gemensam nämnare är att de alla ringar in olika både möjligheter och problem med deltagarkultur i praktiken. Vad händer när idealen möter verkligheten? Hur uppfattar deltagarna själva sin roll i de olika kulturella eller pedagogiska projekt de mer eller mindre frivilligt söker sig till eller blir indragna i? Texterna spänner över ett brett spektrum av praktiker, erfarenheter och problemställningar. De använder olika begrepp och angreppsätt för att närma sig alltifrån deltagarstyrda musikfestivaler och konstprojekt till litteraturläsning och projektarbeten på lärarutbildningen. Nya former för kulturstöd som utmanar traditionella bidragssystem undersöks i en av texterna. Läsaren introduceras för fenomen som crowd funding, crowd sourcing, mikrofinansiering och viral spridning. Filosofins hantering av lek och begär konfronteras med kulturpolitiska visioner och policydokument i en annan text. Sist men inte minst ägnar sig texterna åt intensiv självreflexion – vilket inte skall förväxlas med självupptagenhet.
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-, et al.
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Architectural Impact on Performance of In-memoryData Analytics: Apache Spark Case Study
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While cluster computing frameworks are contin-uously evolving to provide real-time data analysis capabilities,Apache Spark has managed to be at the forefront of big data an-alytics for being a unified framework for both, batch and streamdata processing. However, recent studies on micro-architecturalcharacterization of in-memory data analytics are limited to onlybatch processing workloads. We compare micro-architectural per-formance of batch processing and stream processing workloadsin Apache Spark using hardware performance counters on a dualsocket server. In our evaluation experiments, we have found thatbatch processing are stream processing workloads have similarmicro-architectural characteristics are bounded by the latency offrequent data access to DRAM. For data accesses we have foundthat simultaneous multi-threading is effective in hiding the datalatencies. We have also observed that (i) data locality on NUMAnodes can improve the performance by 10% on average and(ii)disabling next-line L1-D prefetchers can reduce the executiontime by up-to 14% and (iii) multiple small executors can provideup-to 36% speedup over single large executor
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-, et al.
(författare)
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How Data Volume Affects Spark Based Data Analytics on a Scale-up Server
- 2015
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Ingår i: Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319290058 ; , s. 81-92
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark is gaining popularity for exhibiting superior scale-out performance on the commodity machines, the impact of data volume on the performance of Spark based data analytics in scale-up configuration is not well understood. We present a deep-dive analysis of Spark based applications on a large scale-up server machine. Our analysis reveals that Spark based data analytics are DRAM bound and do not benefit by using more than 12 cores for an executor. By enlarging input data size, application performance degrades significantly due to substantial increase in wait time during I/O operations and garbage collection, despite 10 % better instruction retirement rate (due to lower L1 cache misses and higher core utilization). We match memory behaviour with the garbage collector to improve performance of applications between 1.6x to 3x.
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-, et al.
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Micro-architectural Characterization of Apache Spark on Batch and Stream Processing Workloads
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While cluster computing frameworks are continuously evolving to provide real-time data analysis capabilities, Apache Spark has managed to be at the forefront of big data analytics for being a unified framework for both, batch and stream data processing. However, recent studies on micro-architectural characterization of in-memory data analytics are limited to only batch processing workloads. We compare the micro-architectural performance of batch processing and stream processing workloads in Apache Spark using hardware performance counters on a dual socket server. In our evaluation experiments, we have found that batch processing and stream processing has same micro-architectural behavior in Spark if the difference between two implementations is of micro-batching only. If the input data rates are small, stream processing workloads are front-end bound. However, the front end bound stalls are reduced at larger input data rates and instruction retirement is improved. Moreover, Spark workloads using DataFrames have improved instruction retirement over workloads using RDDs.
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-, et al.
(författare)
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Node architecture implications for in-memory data analytics on scale-in clusters
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While cluster computing frameworks are continuously evolving to provide real-time data analysis capabilities, Apache Spark has managed to be at the forefront of big data analytics. Recent studies propose scale-in clusters with in-storage processing devices to process big data analytics with Spark However the proposal is based solely on the memory bandwidth characterization of in-memory data analytics and also does not shed light on the specification of host CPU and memory. Through empirical evaluation of in-memory data analytics with Apache Spark on an Ivy Bridge dual socket server, we have found that (i) simultaneous multi-threading is effective up to 6 cores (ii) data locality on NUMA nodes can improve the performance by 10% on average, (iii) disabling next-line L1-D prefetchers can reduce the execution time by up to 14%, (iv) DDR3 operating at 1333 MT/s is sufficient and (v) multiple small executors can provide up to 36% speedup over single large executor.
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-
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Performance Characterization and Optimization of In-Memory Data Analytics on a Scale-up Server
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The sheer increase in the volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark defines the state of the art in big data analytics platforms for (i) exploiting data-flow and in-memory computing and (ii) for exhibiting superior scale-out performance on the commodity machines, little effort has been devoted to understanding the performance of in-memory data analytics with Spark on modern scale-up servers. This thesis characterizes the performance of in-memory data analytics with Spark on scale-up servers.Through empirical evaluation of representative benchmark workloads on a dual socket server, we have found that in-memory data analytics with Spark exhibit poor multi-core scalability beyond 12 cores due to thread level load imbalance and work-time inflation (the additional CPU time spent by threads in a multi-threaded computation beyond the CPU time required to perform the same work in a sequential computation). We have also found that workloads are bound by the latency of frequent data accesses to the memory. By enlarging input data size, application performance degrades significantly due to the substantial increase in wait time during I/O operations and garbage collection, despite 10% better instruction retirement rate (due to lower L1cache misses and higher core utilization).For data accesses, we have found that simultaneous multi-threading is effective in hiding the data latencies. We have also observed that (i) data locality on NUMA nodes can improve the performance by 10% on average,(ii) disabling next-line L1-D prefetchers can reduce the execution time by upto14%. For garbage collection impact, we match memory behavior with the garbage collector to improve the performance of applications between 1.6xto 3x and recommend using multiple small Spark executors that can provide up to 36% reduction in execution time over single large executor. Based on the characteristics of workloads, the thesis envisions near-memory and near storage hardware acceleration to improve the single-node performance of scale-out frameworks like Apache Spark. Using modeling techniques, it estimates the speed-up of 4x for Apache Spark on scale-up servers augmented with near-data accelerators.
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- Awan, Ahsan Javed, 1988-
(författare)
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Performance Characterization of In-Memory Data Analytics on a Scale-up Server
- 2016
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark defines the state of the art in big data analytics platforms for (i) exploiting data-flow and in-memory computing and (ii) for exhibiting superior scale-out performance on the commodity machines, little effort has been devoted at understanding the performance of in-memory data analytics with Spark on modern scale-up servers. This thesis characterizes the performance of in-memory data analytics with Spark on scale-up servers.Through empirical evaluation of representative benchmark workloads on a dual socket server, we have found that in-memory data analytics with Spark exhibit poor multi-core scalability beyond 12 cores due to thread level load imbalance and work-time inflation. We have also found that workloads are bound by the latency of frequent data accesses to DRAM. By enlarging input data size, application performance degrades significantly due to substantial increase in wait time during I/O operations and garbage collection, despite 10% better instruction retirement rate (due to lower L1 cache misses and higher core utilization).For data accesses we have found that simultaneous multi-threading is effective in hiding the data latencies. We have also observed that (i) data locality on NUMA nodes can improve the performance by 10% on average, (ii) disabling next-line L1-D prefetchers can reduce the execution time by up-to 14%. For GC impact, we match memory behaviour with the garbage collector to improve performance of applications between 1.6x to 3x. and recommend to use multiple small executors that can provide up-to 36% speedup over single large executor.
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