- Research Article
- 10.33395/sinkron.v10i1.15788
Workload-Aware Performance Evaluation of Sequential and Parallel DAG-Based Machine Learning Orchestration on Single-Node Systems
- Jan 30, 2026
- SinkrOn
- Krisna Shaadiq Nugroho + 7 more +7
The increasing adoption of machine learning in production systems has intensified the need for structured, automated, and reproducible pipelines, commonly modeled as directed acyclic graphs. However, unlike most existing workflow scheduling studies that focus on distributed or multi-node environments, this work addresses the lack of controlled, workload-aware analysis for orchestration strategies specifically in single-node systems. A controlled experimental methodology is applied by executing an identical machine learning pipeline under two orchestration modes: sequential execution using a local orchestrator and parallel execution using a workflow orchestration engine. Two scenarios are evaluated by explicitly controlling task execution duration to represent light and heavy computational workloads. The results show that under light workloads, parallel execution increases the average makespan significantly, yielding a speedup of only 0.71, which indicates performance degradation due to dominant orchestration overhead. In contrast, under heavy workloads, parallel execution reduces the average makespan from 1013 seconds to 532 seconds, achieving a speedup of 1.90. System-level monitoring reveals higher central processing unit utilization during parallel execution, while evaluation metrics, including root mean square error and coefficient of determination, remain stable across all experimental runs. This study contributes empirical evidence of a workload threshold beyond which orchestration overhead becomes negligible and pipeline parallelism becomes beneficial. These findings demonstrate that the performance benefits of parallelism are strictly workload-dependent, highlighting the importance of selecting orchestration strategies based on computational workload characteristics.
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