Synapse: Bridging the Gap Towards Predictable Workload Placement.
André Merzky, Shantenu Jha · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015
We introduce Synapse motivated by the needs to estimate workload execution characteristics on distributed heterogeneous resources. Synapse has an automated and system-independent application profiler, and the ability to emulate profiled workloads on a variety of heterogeneous resources. We designed experiments that show: (i) that Synapses automated profiling truthfully represents the application characteristics; (ii) that Synapses application emulation truthfully reproduces the application characteristics in the original runtime environment; and (iii) that Synapses application emulation retains those properties when used in a different runtime environment.