Scheduling in High Performance Computing Environment using Firefly Algorithm and Intelligent Water Drop Algorithm

Scheduling in High Performance Computing Environment using Firefly Algorithm and Intelligent Water Drop Algorithms

  IJETT-book-cover  International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)          
  
© 2014 by IJETT Journal
Volume-14 Number-1
Year of Publication : 2014
Authors : Ms. D. Thilagavathi , Dr. Antony Selvadoss Thanamani
  10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V14P203

Citation 

Ms. D. Thilagavathi , Dr. Antony Selvadoss Thanamani. "Scheduling in High Performance Computing Environment using Firefly Algorithm and Intelligent Water Drop Algorithm", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), V14(1),8-12 Aug 2014. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group

Abstract

Scheduling of jobs in High Performance Computing environment is a NP-Hard Problem. Many conventional algorithms were used by the researchers to solve this problem. But the results got by using swarm intelligence based algorithms gives a near optimal solution then conventional method. In this paper, we propose two such algorithms like Firefly Algorithm and Intelligent Water Drop Algorithm which outperforms the results of conventional algorithms and also some swarm intelligence algorithms like Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization comparatively. Both this proposed algorithms are used to dynamically create an optimal schedule to finish the submitted jobs in a High Performance Computing environment showing promising results.

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Keywords
High Performance Computing, NP-Hard, Firefly, Intelligent Water Drop, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization.