Response-time analysis of a big data system with stochastic petri nets
摘要
Response time is a vital performance metric of a big data system, indicating the system’s efficiency and measuring users’ satisfaction in today’s data-intensive environments. Through a case study, this paper presents a general framework for modeling and evaluating the response time of a Spark system using stochastic Petri nets (SPNs). To deal with the state-space explosion problem encountered in such discrete-event modeling of large-scale systems, stochastic simulation algorithms have been proposed. The response time can therefore be automatically derived to quantitatively evaluate the system. Experimental results demonstrate the impact of the number of applications and the executing task rate on this performance metric. Consequently, the framework provides a practical methodology for performance prediction, whose deployment for analyzing complex architectures benefits from high-performance computing (HPC) resources.