Application mapping to system resources for instance creation
A system and method for efficiently creating and managing application instances in distributed computing systems is disclosed. Controls are presented for specifying an application for instantiation, a data file for use with the application, and a destination for results from the application. Based on user input, graphical representations of available system resources in the distributed computing system are presented along with a logical topology for application instance creation to permit efficient user mapping of application primitives to available system resources. To further improve the user's ability to map, a hierarchical presentation of nodes illustrating resource and interconnection attributes may also be presented, and an error checking process may be performed to detect problems and offer suggested corrections based on application requirements and performance data collected from prior application executions.
1. A method for creating instances of applications in a distributed computing system, the method comprising:
presenting a user with controls to specify an application for instantiation, a data file for use with the application, and a destination for results from the application;
presenting the user with a graphical representation of available system resources in the distributed computing system;
presenting the user with a graphical representation of a logical topology for an instance of the application specified by the user, wherein the graphical representation of the logical topology comprises one or more application primitives that are assignable by the user to specific available system resources to create a proposed mapping;
checking the proposed mapping to detect if one or more problems are present in the proposed mapping to the user, the one or more problems comprising one or both of (i) an application primitive, of the one or more application primitives, having requirements not met by the user-assigned specific available system resources, and (ii) a non-optimal assignment of an application primitive, of the one or more application primitives, to the available system resources; and
displaying a warning to the user if the one or more problems are detected, the warning corresponding to the one or more detected problems.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the warning comprises a graphical problem indicator on one or more of the available system resources in the proposed mapping corresponding to the one or more detected problems.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising calculating an optimal assignment of application primitives to the available system resources.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said optimal assignment is based on prior application instance execution history.
5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising presenting the user with a proposed alternate mapping that addresses the one or more detected problems.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising instantiating an instance of the user-specified application based on the proposed alternate mapping.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphical representation of available system resources comprises a hierarchical diagram with nodes illustrating CPU and GPU attributes.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the hierarchical diagram further comprises representations of one or more interconnections between the available system resources, wherein the representations of the one or more interconnections illustrate available bandwidth.
9. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a computational device, which when executed cause the computational device to:
present a user with controls to specify an application for instantiation, a data file for use with the application, and a destination for results from the application;
present the user with a graphical representation of available system resources;
present the user with a graphical representation of a logical topology for an instance of the application specified by the user, wherein the graphical representation of the logical topology comprises one or more application primitives that are assignable by the user to specific available system resources to create a proposed mapping;
check the proposed mapping to detect if one or more problems are present in the proposed mapping to the user, the one or more problems comprising one or both of (i) an application primitive, of the one or more application primitives, having requirements not met by the user-assigned specific available system resources, and (ii) a non-optimal assignment of an application primitive, of the one or more application primitives, to the available system resources; and
display a warning to the user if the one or more problems are detected, the warning corresponding to the one or more detected problems.
10. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the warning comprises a graphical problem indicator on one or more available system resources in the proposed mapping corresponding to the one or more detected problems.
11. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the computational device to calculate an optimal assignment of application primitives to the available system resources.
12. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the optimal assignment is based on prior application instance execution history.
13. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the computational device to present the user with a proposed alternate mapping that addresses the one or more detected problems if the one or more problems are detected.
14. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the computational device to instantiate an instance of the user-specified application based on the user-selected mapping.
15. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the graphical representation of available system resources comprises a hierarchical diagram with nodes illustrating CPU and GPU attributes.
16. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the hierarchical diagram further comprises representations of one or more interconnections between the available system resources, wherein the representations of the one or more interconnections illustrate available bandwidth.