Modular Workload Format: Extending SWF for Modular Systems

This paper presents the Modular Workload Format (MWF), a proposal for extending widely accepted Standard (SWF) job scheduling evaluation. David Talby and Dror Feitelson proposed SWF in 1999, allowing to describe data center workload synthesized way. Its simplicity, representing each by single line text file including details make evaluation quite accurate, was part of its success. Using these years’ experience but considering new system characteristics, we propose an extension support multiple steps job, heterogeneous jobs, relevant inputs not covered as energy/power references. The goal this contribution is adapt current trends architectures workloads. Moreover, simple approach converting any already existing trace into MWF be able reuse traces.