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Carlo Curino commented on YARN-1021:
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I might have missed this, but can you check whether the
ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy (running as a monitor) gets invoked
correctly when running the simulator with the CapacityScheduler (and with
preemption turned on)?
For the use of Clocks in the RM I think it was pretty consistent (if I remember
correctly from our simulator attempt). Also notice that more than a faster
version of time, it is important to achieve discrete event simulation, as this
allows awesome debugging... just accelerating/slowing down time does not give
you that. Please consider this seriously, as I think it would heavily increase
the value of your simulator.
Related to that is consistent replay (as in fully deterministic). This would
be very very valuable to have. I can see this to be invaluable for debugging,
testing, demonstrating features and corner cases etc.
Simulating NM/AM is indeed costly, thought it stresses a bunch of other part of
the system... pros and cons... I would suggest you to simply make sure that
your architecture/design does not prevent us later on to broaden the scope of
the simulation.
> Yarn Scheduler Load Simulator
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>
> Key: YARN-1021
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1021
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: scheduler
> Reporter: Wei Yan
> Assignee: Wei Yan
> Attachments: YARN-1021-demo.tar.gz, YARN-1021-images.tar.gz,
> YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.patch,
> YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.patch, YARN-1021.pdf
>
>
> The Yarn Scheduler is a fertile area of interest with different
> implementations, e.g., Fifo, Capacity and Fair schedulers. Meanwhile,
> several optimizations are also made to improve scheduler performance for
> different scenarios and workload. Each scheduler algorithm has its own set of
> features, and drives scheduling decisions by many factors, such as fairness,
> capacity guarantee, resource availability, etc. It is very important to
> evaluate a scheduler algorithm very well before we deploy it in a production
> cluster. Unfortunately, currently it is non-trivial to evaluate a scheduling
> algorithm. Evaluating in a real cluster is always time and cost consuming,
> and it is also very hard to find a large-enough cluster. Hence, a simulator
> which can predict how well a scheduler algorithm for some specific workload
> would be quite useful.
> We want to build a Scheduler Load Simulator to simulate large-scale Yarn
> clusters and application loads in a single machine. This would be invaluable
> in furthering Yarn by providing a tool for researchers and developers to
> prototype new scheduler features and predict their behavior and performance
> with reasonable amount of confidence, there-by aiding rapid innovation.
> The simulator will exercise the real Yarn ResourceManager removing the
> network factor by simulating NodeManagers and ApplicationMasters via handling
> and dispatching NM/AMs heartbeat events from within the same JVM.
> To keep tracking of scheduler behavior and performance, a scheduler wrapper
> will wrap the real scheduler.
> The simulator will produce real time metrics while executing, including:
> * Resource usages for whole cluster and each queue, which can be utilized to
> configure cluster and queue's capacity.
> * The detailed application execution trace (recorded in relation to simulated
> time), which can be analyzed to understand/validate the scheduler behavior
> (individual jobs turn around time, throughput, fairness, capacity guarantee,
> etc).
> * Several key metrics of scheduler algorithm, such as time cost of each
> scheduler operation (allocate, handle, etc), which can be utilized by Hadoop
> developers to find the code spots and scalability limits.
> The simulator will provide real time charts showing the behavior of the
> scheduler and its performance.
> A short demo is available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thLi8q0qLE, showing
> how to use simulator to simulate Fair Scheduler and Capacity Scheduler.
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