Hypergraph-Based Data Reduced Scheduling Policy for Data-Intensive Workflow in Clouds

Data-intensive computing is expected to be the next-generation IT computing paradigm. Data-intensive workflows in clouds are becoming more and more popular. How to schedule data-intensive workflow efficiently has become the key issue. In this paper, first, we build a directed hypergraph model for data-intensive workflow, since Hypergraphs can more accurately model communication volume and better represent asymmetric problems, and the cut metric of hypergraphs is well suited for minimizing the total volume of communication. Second, we propose a concept data supportive ability to help the presentation of data-intensive workflow application and provide the merge operation details considering the data supportive ability. Third, we present an optimized hypergraph multi-level partitioning algorithm. Finally we bring a data reduced scheduling policy HEFT-P for data-intensive workflow. Through simulation, we compare HEFT-P with three typical workflow scheduling policies. The results indicate that HEFT-P could obtain reduced data scheduling and reduce the makespan of executing data-intensive workflows.