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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi, 1989
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Purpose Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm involves the ability of exploration and exploitati... more Purpose Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm involves the ability of exploration and exploitation phases, and it is able to solve combinatorial optimization problems. For these reasons, it is considered a global optimizer. The scheduling operation is completed by imitating the hunting behavior of sea lions. Design/methodology/approach Cloud computing (CC) is a type of distributed computing, contributory in a massive number of available resources and demands, and its goal is sharing the resources as services over the internet. Because of the optimal using of these services is everlasting challenge, the issue of task scheduling in CC is significant. In this paper, a task scheduling technique for CC based on SLnO and multiple-objective model are proposed. It enables decreasing in overall completion time, cost and power consumption; and maximizes the resources utilization. The simulation results on the tested data illustrated that the SLnO scheduler performed better performance than o...
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Little data exists on how message passing programs use parallel computers. The behavior of these ... more Little data exists on how message passing programs use parallel computers. The behavior of these programs can strongly influence design decisions made for future computer systems. The computer designer's use of incorrect assumptions about program behavior can degrade performance. In many cases simple statistical parameters describing characteristics such as message sizes, destinations, sources, and times between sends would give the designers of the communication libraries and the computer hardware great insight into how the hardware is used by actual programs. Techniques of collecting statistical information about the communication characteristics for system design have been applied to the parallel version of the NAS benchmarks. The paper describes the statistical data collected for multiprocessor runs of the NAS 2.1 benchmarks and some of the characteristics observed in that data
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The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP), which belongs... more The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP), which belongs to NP-hard problems and is considered a typical problem for many real-world applications. Many researchers used the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for solving the TSP. However, using a suitable mutation was one of the main obstacles for GA. This paper proposes for GA an Efficient Mutation (GA-EM) for solving TSP. The efficient mutation can balance between deeply searching and preventing stuck on local optima to ensure a better convergence rate and diversity. Therefore, in this paper, a local search method based on three neighborhood structure operators; namely, transpose, shift-and-insert, and swap, is proposed to produce the efficient mutation for GA. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated by three TSP datasets; including, TSPLIB, National TSPs, and VLSI Data Set. These datasets have different graphs’ structures and sizes. The sizes of the datasets range from 150 to 18512 citie...
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˜The œinternational Arab journal of information technology, 2011
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Abstract: The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the sy... more Abstract: The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system’s processors are linked. Due to the great role played by the interconnection network’s topology in improving the parallel processing system’s performance, various topologies have been proposed in the literature. This paper proposes a new interconnection network topology, referred to as the chained-cubic tree, in which chains of hypercubes are arranged in a tree structure. The major topological properties of the proposed topology have been investigated, including its diameter, degree, connectivity, bisection width, size, cost, and hamiltonicity. A comparative study is then conducted between the proposed CCT and other interconnection networks ’ topologies, including tree and hypercube in order to evaluate the rank occupied by CCT among other well-known topologies in terms of various performance and cost metrics. The concluding results proved that the CCT topology overcomes the shortco...
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The Journal of Supercomputing
Over the past years, researchers drew their attention to propose optoelectronic architectures, in... more Over the past years, researchers drew their attention to propose optoelectronic architectures, including optical transpose interconnection system (OTIS) networks. On the other hand, there are limited attempts devoted to design parallel algorithms for applications that could be mapped on such optoelectronic architectures. Thus, exploiting the attractive features of OTIS networks and investigating their performance in solving combinatorial optimization problems become a great necessity. In this paper, a parallel repetitive nearest neighbor algorithm for solving the symmetric traveling salesman problem on OTIS-Hypercube and OTIS-Mesh optoelectronic architectures is presented. This algorithm has been evaluated analytically and by simulation on both optoelectronic architectures in terms of number of communication steps, parallel run time, speedup, efficiency, cost and communication cost. The simulation results attained almost near-linear speedup and high efficiency among the two selected optoelectronic architectures, where OTIS-Hypercube gained better results in comparison with OTIS-Mesh.
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The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system's... more The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system's processors are linked. Due to the great role played by the interconnection network's topology in improving the parallel processing system's performance, various topologies have been proposed in the literature. This paper proposes a new interconnection network topology, referred to as the chained(cubic tree, in which chains of hypercubes are arranged in a tree structure. The major topological properties of the proposed topology have been investigated, including its diameter, degree, connectivity, bisection width, size, cost, and hamiltonicity. A comparative study is then conducted between the proposed CCT and other interconnection networks' topologies, including tree and hypercube in order to evaluate the rank occupied by CCT among other well(known topologies in terms of various performance and cost metrics. The concluding results proved that the CCT topology overcomes the sh...
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As a barrier synchronization communication operation, all-reduce communication operation is used ... more As a barrier synchronization communication operation, all-reduce communication operation is used in many parallel and distributed algorithms. In this paper, the all-reduce communication operation is developed using Extended Dominating Node (EDN) approach on OTIS-Mesh (Optical Transpose Interconnection System Mesh) optoelectronic architecture. Also, the performance assessment of all-reduce communication operation is presented mathematically and by simulation in terms of number of communication steps, latency, and latency improvement; among three optoelectronic architectures: the single-port OTIS-Mesh, all-port OTIS-Mesh, and all-port EDN-OTIS-Mesh. The obtained mathematical and simulation results show that the all-reduce communication operation on all-port EDN-OTIS-Mesh significantly outperforms the single-port and all-port OTIS-Mesh. Keywords— All Reduce Operation, Barrier Synchronization, Extended Dominating Node, Interconnection Network, Mesh.
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The type of programs that are executed on the machine heavily influences the design of a high-per... more The type of programs that are executed on the machine heavily influences the design of a high-performance computer. Thus, it is essential for computer designers and programmers to understand the characteristics of the programs they are interested in running to select a computer design that provides the best performance. In many cases, summary information about the programs can be used to gain insight about the programs behavior. Simple statistical parameters describing distribution characteristics such as size, destinations and sources of messages, and times between sends would give the designers of the communication libraries and the computer hardware great insight into how the hardware is used by actual programs. This book seeks to remedy this by collecting parameterized data that concisely describe how message passing programs data communicate between processors and applying this parameterized data to queuing system models to improve the accuracy of performance estimates. This bo...
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi, 1989
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International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
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Neural Computing and Applications
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Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021
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Telecommunication Systems
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International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019
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Purpose Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm involves the ability of exploration and exploitati... more Purpose Sea Lion Optimization (SLnO) algorithm involves the ability of exploration and exploitation phases, and it is able to solve combinatorial optimization problems. For these reasons, it is considered a global optimizer. The scheduling operation is completed by imitating the hunting behavior of sea lions. Design/methodology/approach Cloud computing (CC) is a type of distributed computing, contributory in a massive number of available resources and demands, and its goal is sharing the resources as services over the internet. Because of the optimal using of these services is everlasting challenge, the issue of task scheduling in CC is significant. In this paper, a task scheduling technique for CC based on SLnO and multiple-objective model are proposed. It enables decreasing in overall completion time, cost and power consumption; and maximizes the resources utilization. The simulation results on the tested data illustrated that the SLnO scheduler performed better performance than o...
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Little data exists on how message passing programs use parallel computers. The behavior of these ... more Little data exists on how message passing programs use parallel computers. The behavior of these programs can strongly influence design decisions made for future computer systems. The computer designer's use of incorrect assumptions about program behavior can degrade performance. In many cases simple statistical parameters describing characteristics such as message sizes, destinations, sources, and times between sends would give the designers of the communication libraries and the computer hardware great insight into how the hardware is used by actual programs. Techniques of collecting statistical information about the communication characteristics for system design have been applied to the parallel version of the NAS benchmarks. The paper describes the statistical data collected for multiprocessor runs of the NAS 2.1 benchmarks and some of the characteristics observed in that data
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The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP), which belongs... more The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a Combinatorial Optimization Problem (COP), which belongs to NP-hard problems and is considered a typical problem for many real-world applications. Many researchers used the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for solving the TSP. However, using a suitable mutation was one of the main obstacles for GA. This paper proposes for GA an Efficient Mutation (GA-EM) for solving TSP. The efficient mutation can balance between deeply searching and preventing stuck on local optima to ensure a better convergence rate and diversity. Therefore, in this paper, a local search method based on three neighborhood structure operators; namely, transpose, shift-and-insert, and swap, is proposed to produce the efficient mutation for GA. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated by three TSP datasets; including, TSPLIB, National TSPs, and VLSI Data Set. These datasets have different graphs’ structures and sizes. The sizes of the datasets range from 150 to 18512 citie...
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˜The œinternational Arab journal of information technology, 2011
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Abstract: The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the sy... more Abstract: The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system’s processors are linked. Due to the great role played by the interconnection network’s topology in improving the parallel processing system’s performance, various topologies have been proposed in the literature. This paper proposes a new interconnection network topology, referred to as the chained-cubic tree, in which chains of hypercubes are arranged in a tree structure. The major topological properties of the proposed topology have been investigated, including its diameter, degree, connectivity, bisection width, size, cost, and hamiltonicity. A comparative study is then conducted between the proposed CCT and other interconnection networks ’ topologies, including tree and hypercube in order to evaluate the rank occupied by CCT among other well-known topologies in terms of various performance and cost metrics. The concluding results proved that the CCT topology overcomes the shortco...
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The Journal of Supercomputing
Over the past years, researchers drew their attention to propose optoelectronic architectures, in... more Over the past years, researchers drew their attention to propose optoelectronic architectures, including optical transpose interconnection system (OTIS) networks. On the other hand, there are limited attempts devoted to design parallel algorithms for applications that could be mapped on such optoelectronic architectures. Thus, exploiting the attractive features of OTIS networks and investigating their performance in solving combinatorial optimization problems become a great necessity. In this paper, a parallel repetitive nearest neighbor algorithm for solving the symmetric traveling salesman problem on OTIS-Hypercube and OTIS-Mesh optoelectronic architectures is presented. This algorithm has been evaluated analytically and by simulation on both optoelectronic architectures in terms of number of communication steps, parallel run time, speedup, efficiency, cost and communication cost. The simulation results attained almost near-linear speedup and high efficiency among the two selected optoelectronic architectures, where OTIS-Hypercube gained better results in comparison with OTIS-Mesh.
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Int. Arab J. Inf. Technol., 2011
The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system's... more The core of a parallel processing system is the interconnection network by which the system's processors are linked. Due to the great role played by the interconnection network's topology in improving the parallel processing system's performance, various topologies have been proposed in the literature. This paper proposes a new interconnection network topology, referred to as the chained(cubic tree, in which chains of hypercubes are arranged in a tree structure. The major topological properties of the proposed topology have been investigated, including its diameter, degree, connectivity, bisection width, size, cost, and hamiltonicity. A comparative study is then conducted between the proposed CCT and other interconnection networks' topologies, including tree and hypercube in order to evaluate the rank occupied by CCT among other well(known topologies in terms of various performance and cost metrics. The concluding results proved that the CCT topology overcomes the sh...
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As a barrier synchronization communication operation, all-reduce communication operation is used ... more As a barrier synchronization communication operation, all-reduce communication operation is used in many parallel and distributed algorithms. In this paper, the all-reduce communication operation is developed using Extended Dominating Node (EDN) approach on OTIS-Mesh (Optical Transpose Interconnection System Mesh) optoelectronic architecture. Also, the performance assessment of all-reduce communication operation is presented mathematically and by simulation in terms of number of communication steps, latency, and latency improvement; among three optoelectronic architectures: the single-port OTIS-Mesh, all-port OTIS-Mesh, and all-port EDN-OTIS-Mesh. The obtained mathematical and simulation results show that the all-reduce communication operation on all-port EDN-OTIS-Mesh significantly outperforms the single-port and all-port OTIS-Mesh. Keywords— All Reduce Operation, Barrier Synchronization, Extended Dominating Node, Interconnection Network, Mesh.
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The type of programs that are executed on the machine heavily influences the design of a high-per... more The type of programs that are executed on the machine heavily influences the design of a high-performance computer. Thus, it is essential for computer designers and programmers to understand the characteristics of the programs they are interested in running to select a computer design that provides the best performance. In many cases, summary information about the programs can be used to gain insight about the programs behavior. Simple statistical parameters describing distribution characteristics such as size, destinations and sources of messages, and times between sends would give the designers of the communication libraries and the computer hardware great insight into how the hardware is used by actual programs. This book seeks to remedy this by collecting parameterized data that concisely describe how message passing programs data communicate between processors and applying this parameterized data to queuing system models to improve the accuracy of performance estimates. This bo...
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