Performance Comparisons on Processor Allocation Algorithms by Using Simulation Techniques

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With remarkable progress of hardware technologies, multiprocessor systems equipped with thousands of processors will be available in near future. In order to increase the performance of these systems, many processor allocation algorithms have been proposed. However, few studies have been conducted in order to compare the performance of these algorithms. In this paper, simulation techniques are used in order to compare the performance of the processor allocation algorithms proved to be useful. These are: an algorithm using equipartion, an algorithm using average parallelism, an algorithm using execution signatures, and an algorithm using the number of tasks in a task precedence graph. Simulation shows that the algorithm using execution signatures performs best while the algorithm using average parallelism performs worst with small allocated processors. Surprisingly, the algorithm using equipartition performs well despite the fact that it has smallest overhead. Overall, it can be recommended that the algorithm using equipartition be used without any execution history and that the algorithm using execution signatures be used with some execution history.