Cooperative Job Scheduling and Data Allocation for Busy Data-Intensive Parallel Computing Clusters

In data-intensive parallel computing clusters, it is important to provide deadline-guaranteed service to jobs while minimizing resource usage (e.g., network bandwidth and energy). Under the current computing framework (that first allocates data and then schedules jobs), in a busy cluster with many jobs, it is difficult to achieve these objectives simultaneously. We model the problem to simultaneously achieve the objectives using integer programming, and propose a heuristic Cooperative job Scheduling and data Allocation method (CSA). CSA novelly reverses the order of data allocation and job scheduling in the current computing framework, i.e., changing data-first-job-second to job-first-data-second. It enables CSA to proactively consolidate tasks with more common requested data to the same server when conducting deadline-aware scheduling, and also consolidate the tasks to as few servers as possible to maximize energy savings. This facilitates the subsequent data allocation step to allocate a data block to the server that hosts most of this data's requester tasks, thus maximally enhancing data locality and reduce bandwidth consumption. CSA also has a recursive schedule refinement process to adjust the job and data allocation schedules to improve system performance regarding the three objectives and achieve the tradeoff between data locality and energy savings with specified weights. We implemented CSA and a number of previous job schedulers on Apache Hadoop on a real supercomputing cluster. Trace-driven experiments in the simulation and the real cluster show that CSA outperforms other schedulers in supplying deadline-guarantee and resource-efficient services.