Technical Reports (CIS)
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
1-1-2010
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the feasibility of enabling the scheduling of mixed hard and soft real-time MapReduce applications. We first present an experimental evaluation of the popular Hadoop MapReduce middleware on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Our evaluation reveals tradeoffs between overall system throughput and execution time predictability, as well as highlights a number of factors affecting real-time scheduling, such as data placement, concurrent users, and master scheduling overhead. Based on our evaluation study, we present a formal model for capturing real-time MapReduce applications and the Hadoop platform. Using this model, we formulate the offline scheduling of real-time MapReduce jobs on a heterogeneous distributed Hadoop architecture as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) and introduce various search strategies for the formulation. We propose an enhancement of MapReduce’s execution model and a range of heuristic techniques for the online scheduling. We further outline some of our future directions that apply state-of-the-art techniques in the real-time scheduling literature.
Recommended Citation
Linh T.X. Phan, Zhuoyao Zhang, Boon Thau Loo, and Insup Lee, "Real-Time MapReduce Scheduling", . January 2010.
Date Posted: 06 October 2010
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-10-32.