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An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment
  Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance of slow tasks distribution. Speculative execution (SE) presents a way to deal with Straggling tasks by monitoring the real-time progress of running tasks and replicating potential "Stragglers" on another node to increase the opportunity of completing backup tasks ahead of original. Current proposed SE strategies meet their challenges such as misjudgment of "Straggling tasks", improper selection of backup nodes, etc., which result in inefficient performance of the SE and its Hadoop system. In this paper, we propose an optimized SE strategy based on local data prediction, which collects task execution information in real time and uses Locally Weighted Regression (LWR) to predict remaining time of each running tasks, and selects an appropriate backup task node according to the actual requirements. It also combines a cost-benefit model to maximize the effectiveness of SE. According to the results, the proposed SE strategy implemented in Hadoop-2.6.0 enhances the accuracy of selecting potential Straggler task candidates, and shows better performance in various situations in a heterogeneous Hadoop environment.

  • Date:

    18 August 2017

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE

  • DOI:

    10.1109/cse-euc.2017.208

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    005 Computer programming, programs & data

  • Funders:

    European Commission

Citation

Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017). An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), (128-131). https://doi.org/10.1109/cse-euc.2017.208

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Keywords

Hadoop, Speculative Execution, Straggling Task, LWR, Prediction Accuracy

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