New YARN Non-Exclusive Resource Management Scheme through Opportunistic Idle Resource Assignment

Zhengyu Yang, Yi Yao, Han Gao, Jiayin Wang, Ningfang Mi, Bo Sheng

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Abstract

Efficiently managing resources and improving throughput in a large-scale cluster has become a crucial problem with the explosion of data processing applications in recent years. Hadoop YARN and Mesos, as two universal resource manage- ment platforms, have been widely adopted in the commodity cluster for co-deploying multiple data processing frameworks, such as Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark. However, in the existing resource management, a certain amount of resources are exclusively allocated to a running task and can only be re-assigned after that task is completed. This exclusive mode unfortunately leads to a potential problem that may under-utilize the cluster resources and degrade system performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel opportunistic and efficient resource allocation scheme, named O P ERA, which breaks the barriers among the encapsulated resource containers by leveraging the knowledge of actual runtime resource utilizations to re-assign opportunistic available resources to the pending tasks. O P ERA avoids incurring severe performance interference to active tasks by further using two approaches to efficiently balances the starvations of reserved tasks and normal queued tasks. We implement and evaluate O P ERA in Hadoop YARN v2.5.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 28 Aug 2018

Keywords

  • Containers
  • Data processing
  • Hadoop YARN
  • MapReduce Scheduling
  • Opportunistic
  • Reservation
  • Resource Allocation
  • Resource management
  • Runtime
  • Spark
  • Sparks
  • Starvation
  • Task analysis
  • Yarn

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