Performance Prediction in Symbolic Scheduling of Partitioned Programs with Weight Variation

In this paper we consider the symbolic scheduling of partitioned loop programs which are modeled as iterative task graphs (ITGs). Each task in such a graph is coarse grained and contains a large chunk of computations. The weights of computation and communication vary from one iteration to another depending on the index value of the loop. The goal of scheduling such graphs is to incorporate the symbolic variables in weight functions and loop bounds and provide an asymptotically optimal schedule and predict its performance accurately. We provide a lower bound for optimal scheduling when weights of iterative task graphs change monotonically in the course of iterations and there is a suucient number of processors. We present a technique that devises a valid symbolic schedule without searching all task instances and examine the asymptotic performance of this schedule compared to an optimal solution. Finally, we present case studies and experimental results on nCUBE-2 to verify our solutions.