.. This file has "irst" as an extension to ensure that it's not parsed by sphinx as is. Instead, it's included in another file that is parsed. .. _howto_disk: I/O calibration *************** Introduction ============ This tutorial presents how to perform faithful IO experiments in SimGrid. It is based on the paper "Adding Storage Simulation Capacities to the SimGridToolkit: Concepts, Models, and API". The paper presents a series of experiments to analyze the performance of IO operations (read/write) on different kinds of disks (SATA, SAS, SSD). In this tutorial, we present a detailed example of how to extract experimental data to simulate: i) performance degradation with concurrent operations (Fig. 8 in the paper) and ii) variability in IO operations (Fig. 5 to 7). - Link for paper: `https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01197128 `_ - Link for data: `https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Companion_of_the_SimGrid_storage_modeling_article/1175156 `_ **Disclaimer**: - The purpose of this document is to illustrate how we can extract data from experiments and inject on SimGrid. However, the data shown on this page may **not** reflect the reality. - You must run similar experiments on your hardware to get realistic data for your context. - SimGrid has been in active development since the paper release in 2015, thus the XML description used in the paper may have evolved while MSG was superseeded by S4U since then. Running this tutorial --------------------- A Dockerfile is available in ``docs/source/tuto_disk``. It allows you to re-run this tutorial. For that, build the image and run the container: - ``docker build -t tuto_disk .`` - ``docker run -it tuto_disk`` Analyzing the experimental data =============================== We start by analyzing and extracting the real data available. Scripts ------- We use a special method to create non-uniform histograms to represent the noise in IO operations. Unable to install the library properly, I copied the important methods here. Copied from: `https://rdrr.io/github/dlebauer/pecan-priors/src/R/plots.R `_ Data preparation ---------------- Some initial configurations/list of packages. .. code:: R library(jsonlite) library(ggplot2) library(plyr) library(dplyr) library(gridExtra) IO_INFO = list() :: Use suppressPackageStartupMessages() to eliminate package startup messages. Attaching package: 'dplyr' The following objects are masked from 'package:plyr': arrange, count, desc, failwith, id, mutate, rename, summarise, summarize The following objects are masked from 'package:stats': filter, lag The following objects are masked from 'package:base': intersect, setdiff, setequal, union Attaching package: 'gridExtra' The following object is masked from 'package:dplyr': combine This was copied from the ``sg_storage_ccgrid15.org`` available at the figshare of the paper. Before executing this code, please download and decompress the appropriate file. .. code:: sh curl -O -J -L "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1928095" tar xfz bench.tgz Preparing data for varialiby analysis. .. code:: R clean_up <- function (df, infra){ names(df) <- c("Hostname","Date","DirectIO","IOengine","IOscheduler","Error","Operation","Jobs","BufferSize","FileSize","Runtime","Bandwidth","BandwidthMin","BandwidthMax","Latency", "LatencyMin", "LatencyMax","IOPS") df=subset(df,Error=="0") df=subset(df,DirectIO=="1") df <- merge(df,infra,by="Hostname") df$Hostname = sapply(strsplit(df$Hostname, "[.]"), "[", 1) df$HostModel = paste(df$Hostname, df$Model, sep=" - ") df$Duration = df$Runtime/1000 # fio outputs runtime in msec, we want to display seconds df$Size = df$FileSize/1024/1024 df=subset(df,Duration!=0.000) df$Bwi=df$Duration/df$Size df[df$Operation=="read",]$Operation<- "Read" df[df$Operation=="write",]$Operation<- "Write" return(df) } grenoble <- read.csv('./bench/grenoble.csv', header=FALSE,sep = ";", stringsAsFactors=FALSE) luxembourg <- read.csv('./bench/luxembourg.csv', header=FALSE,sep = ";", stringsAsFactors=FALSE) nancy <- read.csv('./bench/nancy.csv', header=FALSE,sep = ";", stringsAsFactors=FALSE) all <- rbind(grenoble,nancy, luxembourg) infra <- read.csv('./bench/infra.csv', header=FALSE,sep = ";", stringsAsFactors=FALSE) names(infra) <- c("Hostname","Model","DiskSize") all = clean_up(all, infra) griffon = subset(all,grepl("^griffon", Hostname)) griffon$Cluster <-"Griffon (SATA II)" edel = subset(all,grepl("^edel", Hostname)) edel$Cluster<-"Edel (SSD)" df = rbind(griffon[griffon$Jobs=="1" & griffon$IOscheduler=="cfq",], edel[edel$Jobs=="1" & edel$IOscheduler=="cfq",]) #Get rid off of 64 Gb disks of Edel as they behave differently (used to be "edel-51") df = df[!(grepl("^Edel",df$Cluster) & df$DiskSize=="64 GB"),] Preparing data for concurrent analysis. .. code:: R dfc = rbind(griffon[griffon$Jobs>1 & griffon$IOscheduler=="cfq",], edel[edel$Jobs>1 & edel$IOscheduler=="cfq",]) dfc2 = rbind(griffon[griffon$Jobs==1 & griffon$IOscheduler=="cfq",], edel[edel$Jobs==1 & edel$IOscheduler=="cfq",]) dfc = rbind(dfc,dfc2[sample(nrow(dfc2),size=200),]) dd <- data.frame( Hostname="??", Date = NA, #tmpl$Date, DirectIO = NA, IOengine = NA, IOscheduler = NA, Error = 0, Operation = NA, #tmpl$Operation, Jobs = NA, # #d$nb.of.concurrent.access, BufferSize = NA, #d$bs, FileSize = NA, #d$size, Runtime = NA, Bandwidth = NA, BandwidthMin = NA, BandwidthMax = NA, Latency = NA, LatencyMin = NA, LatencyMax = NA, IOPS = NA, Model = NA, #tmpl$Model, DiskSize = NA, #tmpl$DiskSize, HostModel = NA, Duration = NA, #d$time, Size = NA, Bwi = NA, Cluster = NA) #tmpl$Cluster) dd$Size = dd$FileSize/1024/1024 dd$Bwi = dd$Duration/dd$Size dfc = rbind(dfc, dd) # Let's get rid of small files! dfc = subset(dfc,Size >= 10) # Let's get rid of 64Gb edel disks dfc = dfc[!(grepl("^Edel",dfc$Cluster) & dfc$DiskSize=="64 GB"),] dfc$TotalSize=dfc$Size * dfc$Jobs dfc$BW = (dfc$TotalSize) / dfc$Duration dfc = dfc[dfc$BW>=20,] # get rid of one point that is typically an outlier and does not make sense dfc$method="lm" dfc[dfc$Cluster=="Edel (SSD)" & dfc$Operation=="Read",]$method="loess" dfc[dfc$Cluster=="Edel (SSD)" & dfc$Operation=="Write" & dfc$Jobs ==1,]$method="lm" dfc[dfc$Cluster=="Edel (SSD)" & dfc$Operation=="Write" & dfc$Jobs ==1,]$method="" dfc[dfc$Cluster=="Griffon (SATA II)" & dfc$Operation=="Write",]$method="lm" dfc[dfc$Cluster=="Griffon (SATA II)" & dfc$Operation=="Write" & dfc$Jobs ==1,]$method="" dfd = dfc[dfc$Operation=="Write" & dfc$Jobs ==1 & (dfc$Cluster %in% c("Griffon (SATA II)", "Edel (SSD)")),] dfd = ddply(dfd,c("Cluster","Operation","Jobs","DiskSize"), summarize, mean = mean(BW), num = length(BW), sd = sd(BW)) dfd$BW=dfd$mean dfd$ci = 2*dfd$sd/sqrt(dfd$num) dfrange=ddply(dfc,c("Cluster","Operation","DiskSize"), summarize, max = max(BW)) dfrange=ddply(dfrange,c("Cluster","DiskSize"), mutate, BW = max(max)) dfrange$Jobs=16 Griffon (SATA) -------------- Modeling resource sharing w/ concurrent access ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This figure presents the overall performance of IO operation with concurrent access to the disk. Note that the image is different from the one in the paper. Probably, we need to further clean the available data to obtain exaclty the same results. .. code:: R ggplot(data=dfc,aes(x=Jobs,y=BW, color=Operation)) + theme_bw() + geom_point(alpha=.3) + geom_point(data=dfrange, size=0) + facet_wrap(Cluster~Operation,ncol=2,scale="free_y")+ # ) + # geom_smooth(data=dfc[dfc$method=="loess",], color="black", method=loess,se=TRUE,fullrange=T) + geom_smooth(data=dfc[dfc$method=="lm",], color="black", method=lm,se=TRUE) + geom_point(data=dfd, aes(x=Jobs,y=BW),color="black",shape=21,fill="white") + geom_errorbar(data=dfd, aes(x=Jobs, ymin=BW-ci, ymax=BW+ci),color="black",width=.6) + xlab("Number of concurrent operations") + ylab("Aggregated Bandwidth (MiB/s)") + guides(color=FALSE) + xlim(0,NA) + ylim(0,NA) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/griffon_deg.png Read """" Getting read data for Griffon from 1 to 15 concurrent reads. .. code:: R deg_griffon = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Griffon", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Read") model = lm(BW~Jobs, data = deg_griffon) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["degradation"]][["read"]] = predict(model,data.frame(Jobs=seq(1,15))) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575] } } } Write """"" Same for write operations. .. code:: R deg_griffon = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Griffon", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% filter(Jobs > 2) mean_job_1 = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Griffon", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% filter(Jobs == 1) %>% summarize(mean = mean(BW)) model = lm(BW~Jobs, data = deg_griffon) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["degradation"]][["write"]] = c(mean_job_1$mean, predict(model,data.frame(Jobs=seq(2,15)))) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] } } } Modeling read/write bandwidth variability ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fig.5 in the paper presents the noise in the read/write operations in the Griffon SATA disk. The paper uses regular histogram to illustrate the distribution of the effective bandwidth. However, in this tutorial, we use dhist (`https://rdrr.io/github/dlebauer/pecan-priors/man/dhist.html `_) to have a more precise information over the highly dense areas around the mean. Read """" First, we present the histogram for read operations. .. code:: R griffon_read = df %>% filter(grepl("^Griffon", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Read") %>% select(Bwi) dhist(1/griffon_read$Bwi) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/griffon_read_dhist.png Saving it to be exported in json format. .. code:: R griffon_read_dhist = dhist(1/griffon_read$Bwi, plot=FALSE) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["noise"]][["read"]] = c(breaks=list(griffon_read_dhist$xbr), heights=list(unclass(griffon_read_dhist$heights))) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["read_bw"]] = mean(1/griffon_read$Bwi) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: Warning message: In hist.default(x, breaks = cut.pt, plot = FALSE, probability = TRUE) : argument 'probability' is not made use of { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425] } } Write """"" Same analysis for write operations. .. code:: R griffon_write = df %>% filter(grepl("^Griffon", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% select(Bwi) dhist(1/griffon_write$Bwi) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/griffon_write_dhist.png .. code:: R griffon_write_dhist = dhist(1/griffon_write$Bwi, plot=FALSE) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["noise"]][["write"]] = c(breaks=list(griffon_write_dhist$xbr), heights=list(unclass(griffon_write_dhist$heights))) IO_INFO[["griffon"]][["write_bw"]] = mean(1/griffon_write$Bwi) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: Warning message: In hist.default(x, breaks = cut.pt, plot = FALSE, probability = TRUE) : argument 'probability' is not made use of { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] }, "write": { "breaks": [5.2604, 21.0831, 31.4773, 39.7107, 45.5157, 50.6755, 54.4726, 59.7212, 67.8983, 81.2193, 95.6333, 111.5864, 127.8409, 144.3015], "heights": [1.7064, 22.6168, 38.613, 70.8008, 84.4486, 128.5118, 82.3692, 39.1431, 9.2256, 5.6195, 1.379, 0.6429, 0.1549] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425], "write_bw": [50.6045] } } Edel (SSD) ---------- This section presents the exactly same analysis for the Edel SSDs. Modeling resource sharing w/ concurrent access ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Read """" Getting read data for Edel from 1 to 15 concurrent operations. .. code:: R deg_edel = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Edel", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Read") model = loess(BW~Jobs, data = deg_edel) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["degradation"]][["read"]] = predict(model,data.frame(Jobs=seq(1,15))) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] }, "write": { "breaks": [5.2604, 21.0831, 31.4773, 39.7107, 45.5157, 50.6755, 54.4726, 59.7212, 67.8983, 81.2193, 95.6333, 111.5864, 127.8409, 144.3015], "heights": [1.7064, 22.6168, 38.613, 70.8008, 84.4486, 128.5118, 82.3692, 39.1431, 9.2256, 5.6195, 1.379, 0.6429, 0.1549] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425], "write_bw": [50.6045] }, "edel": { "degradation": { "read": [150.5119, 167.4377, 182.2945, 195.1004, 205.8671, 214.1301, 220.411, 224.6343, 227.7141, 230.6843, 233.0923, 235.2027, 236.8369, 238.0249, 238.7515] } } } Write """"" Same for write operations. .. code:: R deg_edel = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Edel", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% filter(Jobs > 2) mean_job_1 = dfc %>% filter(grepl("^Edel", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% filter(Jobs == 1) %>% summarize(mean = mean(BW)) model = lm(BW~Jobs, data = deg_edel) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["degradation"]][["write"]] = c(mean_job_1$mean, predict(model,data.frame(Jobs=seq(2,15)))) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] }, "write": { "breaks": [5.2604, 21.0831, 31.4773, 39.7107, 45.5157, 50.6755, 54.4726, 59.7212, 67.8983, 81.2193, 95.6333, 111.5864, 127.8409, 144.3015], "heights": [1.7064, 22.6168, 38.613, 70.8008, 84.4486, 128.5118, 82.3692, 39.1431, 9.2256, 5.6195, 1.379, 0.6429, 0.1549] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425], "write_bw": [50.6045] }, "edel": { "degradation": { "read": [150.5119, 167.4377, 182.2945, 195.1004, 205.8671, 214.1301, 220.411, 224.6343, 227.7141, 230.6843, 233.0923, 235.2027, 236.8369, 238.0249, 238.7515], "write": [132.2771, 170.174, 170.137, 170.1, 170.063, 170.026, 169.9889, 169.9519, 169.9149, 169.8779, 169.8408, 169.8038, 169.7668, 169.7298, 169.6927] } } } Modeling read/write bandwidth variability ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Read """" .. code:: R edel_read = df %>% filter(grepl("^Edel", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Read") %>% select(Bwi) dhist(1/edel_read$Bwi) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/edel_read_dhist.png Saving it to be exported in json format. .. code:: R edel_read_dhist = dhist(1/edel_read$Bwi, plot=FALSE) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["noise"]][["read"]] = c(breaks=list(edel_read_dhist$xbr), heights=list(unclass(edel_read_dhist$heights))) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["read_bw"]] = mean(1/edel_read$Bwi) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: Warning message: In hist.default(x, breaks = cut.pt, plot = FALSE, probability = TRUE) : argument 'probability' is not made use of { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] }, "write": { "breaks": [5.2604, 21.0831, 31.4773, 39.7107, 45.5157, 50.6755, 54.4726, 59.7212, 67.8983, 81.2193, 95.6333, 111.5864, 127.8409, 144.3015], "heights": [1.7064, 22.6168, 38.613, 70.8008, 84.4486, 128.5118, 82.3692, 39.1431, 9.2256, 5.6195, 1.379, 0.6429, 0.1549] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425], "write_bw": [50.6045] }, "edel": { "degradation": { "read": [150.5119, 167.4377, 182.2945, 195.1004, 205.8671, 214.1301, 220.411, 224.6343, 227.7141, 230.6843, 233.0923, 235.2027, 236.8369, 238.0249, 238.7515], "write": [132.2771, 170.174, 170.137, 170.1, 170.063, 170.026, 169.9889, 169.9519, 169.9149, 169.8779, 169.8408, 169.8038, 169.7668, 169.7298, 169.6927] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [104.1667, 112.3335, 120.5003, 128.6671, 136.8222, 144.8831, 149.6239, 151.2937, 154.0445, 156.3837, 162.3555, 170.3105, 178.3243], "heights": [0.1224, 0.1224, 0.1224, 0.2452, 1.2406, 61.6128, 331.2201, 167.6488, 212.1086, 31.3996, 2.3884, 1.747] } }, "read_bw": [152.7139] } } Write """"" .. code:: R edel_write = df %>% filter(grepl("^Edel", Cluster)) %>% filter(Operation == "Write") %>% select(Bwi) dhist(1/edel_write$Bwi) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/edel_write_dhist.png Saving it to be exported later. .. code:: R edel_write_dhist = dhist(1/edel_write$Bwi, plot=FALSE) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["noise"]][["write"]] = c(breaks=list(edel_write_dhist$xbr), heights=list(unclass(edel_write_dhist$heights))) IO_INFO[["edel"]][["write_bw"]] = mean(1/edel_write$Bwi) toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) :: Warning message: In hist.default(x, breaks = cut.pt, plot = FALSE, probability = TRUE) : argument 'probability' is not made use of { "griffon": { "degradation": { "read": [66.6308, 64.9327, 63.2346, 61.5365, 59.8384, 58.1403, 56.4423, 54.7442, 53.0461, 51.348, 49.6499, 47.9518, 46.2537, 44.5556, 42.8575], "write": [49.4576, 26.5981, 27.7486, 28.8991, 30.0495, 31.2, 32.3505, 33.501, 34.6515, 35.8019, 36.9524, 38.1029, 39.2534, 40.4038, 41.5543] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [39.257, 51.3413, 60.2069, 66.8815, 71.315, 74.2973, 80.8883, 95.1944, 109.6767, 125.0231, 140.3519, 155.6807, 171.0094, 186.25], "heights": [15.3091, 41.4578, 73.6826, 139.5982, 235.125, 75.3357, 4.1241, 3.3834, 0, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.0652, 0.3937] }, "write": { "breaks": [5.2604, 21.0831, 31.4773, 39.7107, 45.5157, 50.6755, 54.4726, 59.7212, 67.8983, 81.2193, 95.6333, 111.5864, 127.8409, 144.3015], "heights": [1.7064, 22.6168, 38.613, 70.8008, 84.4486, 128.5118, 82.3692, 39.1431, 9.2256, 5.6195, 1.379, 0.6429, 0.1549] } }, "read_bw": [68.5425], "write_bw": [50.6045] }, "edel": { "degradation": { "read": [150.5119, 167.4377, 182.2945, 195.1004, 205.8671, 214.1301, 220.411, 224.6343, 227.7141, 230.6843, 233.0923, 235.2027, 236.8369, 238.0249, 238.7515], "write": [132.2771, 170.174, 170.137, 170.1, 170.063, 170.026, 169.9889, 169.9519, 169.9149, 169.8779, 169.8408, 169.8038, 169.7668, 169.7298, 169.6927] }, "noise": { "read": { "breaks": [104.1667, 112.3335, 120.5003, 128.6671, 136.8222, 144.8831, 149.6239, 151.2937, 154.0445, 156.3837, 162.3555, 170.3105, 178.3243], "heights": [0.1224, 0.1224, 0.1224, 0.2452, 1.2406, 61.6128, 331.2201, 167.6488, 212.1086, 31.3996, 2.3884, 1.747] }, "write": { "breaks": [70.9593, 79.9956, 89.0654, 98.085, 107.088, 115.9405, 123.5061, 127.893, 131.083, 133.6696, 135.7352, 139.5932, 147.4736], "heights": [0.2213, 0, 0.3326, 0.4443, 1.4685, 11.8959, 63.869, 110.286, 149.9741, 202.887, 80.8298, 9.0298] } }, "read_bw": [152.7139], "write_bw": [131.7152] } } Exporting to JSON ================= Finally, let's save it to a file to be opened by our simulator. .. code:: R json = toJSON(IO_INFO, pretty = TRUE) cat(json, file="IO_noise.json") Injecting this data in SimGrid ============================== To mimic this behavior in SimGrid, we use two features in the platform description: non-linear sharing policy and bandwidth factors. For more details, please see the source code in ``tuto_disk.cpp``. Modeling resource sharing w/ concurrent access ---------------------------------------------- The ``set_sharing_policy`` method allows the user to set a callback to dynamically change the disk capacity. The callback is called each time SimGrid will share the disk between a set of I/O operations. The callback has access to the number of activities sharing the resource and its current capacity. It must return the new resource's capacity. .. code:: C++ static double disk_dynamic_sharing(double capacity, int n) { return capacity; //useless callback } auto* disk = host->create_disk("dump", 1e6, 1e6); disk->set_sharing_policy(sg4::Disk::Operation::READ, sg4::Disk::SharingPolicy::NONLINEAR, &disk_dynamic_sharing); Modeling read/write bandwidth variability ----------------------------------------- The noise in I/O operations can be obtained by applying a factor to the I/O bandwidth of the disk. This factor is applied when we update the remaining amount of bytes to be transferred, increasing or decreasing the effective disk bandwidth. The ``set_factor`` method allows the user to set a callback to dynamically change the factor to be applied for each I/O operation. The callback has access to size of the operation and its type (read or write). It must return a multiply factor (e.g. 1.0 for doing nothing). .. code:: C++ static double disk_variability(sg_size_t size, sg4::Io::OpType op) { return 1.0; //useless callback } auto* disk = host->create_disk("dump", 1e6, 1e6); disk->set_factor_cb(&disk_variability); Running our simulation ---------------------- The binary was compiled in the provided docker container. .. code:: sh ./tuto_disk > ./simgrid_disk.csv Analyzing the SimGrid results ============================= The figure below presents the results obtained by SimGrid. The experiment performs I/O operations, varying the number of concurrent operations from 1 to 15. We run only 20 simulations for each case. We can see that the graphics are quite similar to the ones obtained in the real platform. .. code:: R sg_df = read.csv("./simgrid_disk.csv") sg_df = sg_df %>% group_by(disk, op, flows) %>% mutate(bw=((size*flows)/elapsed)/10^6, method=if_else(disk=="edel" & op=="read", "loess", "lm")) sg_dfd = sg_df %>% filter(flows==1 & op=="write") %>% group_by(disk, op, flows) %>% summarize(mean = mean(bw), sd = sd(bw), se=sd/sqrt(n())) sg_df[sg_df$op=="write" & sg_df$flows ==1,]$method="" ggplot(data=sg_df, aes(x=flows, y=bw, color=op)) + theme_bw() + geom_point(alpha=.3) + geom_smooth(data=sg_df[sg_df$method=="loess",], color="black", method=loess,se=TRUE,fullrange=T) + geom_smooth(data=sg_df[sg_df$method=="lm",], color="black", method=lm,se=TRUE) + geom_errorbar(data=sg_dfd, aes(x=flows, y=mean, ymin=mean-2*se, ymax=mean+2*se),color="black",width=.6) + facet_wrap(disk~op,ncol=2,scale="free_y")+ # ) + # xlab("Number of concurrent operations") + ylab("Aggregated Bandwidth (MiB/s)") + guides(color=FALSE) + xlim(0,NA) + ylim(0,NA) .. image:: tuto_disk/fig/simgrid_results.png Note: The variability in griffon read operation seems to decrease when we have more concurrent operations. This is a particularity of the griffon read speed profile and the elapsed time calculation. Given that: - Each point represents the time to perform the N I/O operations. - Griffon read speed decreases with the number of concurrent operations. With 15 read operations: - At the beginning, every read gets the same bandwidth, about 42MiB/s. - We sample the noise in I/O operations, some will be faster than others (e.g. factor > 1). When the first read operation finish: - We will recalculate the bandwidth sharing, now considering that we have 14 active read operations. This will increase the bandwidth for each operation (about 44MiB/s). - The remaining "slower" activities will be speed up. This behavior keeps happening until the end of the 15 operations, at each step, we speed up a little the slowest operations and consequently, decreasing the variability we see.