A Network Bandwidth-Aware Job Scheduling with Dynamic Information Model for Grid Resource Brokers

In this paper, we propose a resource broker, which providing a friendly interface for accessing available and appropriate resources via user credentials, is developed on a platform constructed by employing the Globus toolkit. This broker not only deploys a domain-based network information model and its dynamic version to measure network status by invoking Network Weather Service (NWS) on grid computing environments, but also uses the Ganglia and NWS tools to monitor resource status and network-related information. Based on the actual value of network bandwidth and preserving the advantages of our previous model, a network bandwidth-award job scheduling algorithm for grid resource brokerage is then developed for communication-intensive job execution. Furthermore, the network information and resource status collected are all up-to-date so that the resource broker can effectively match appropriate grid resources and userspsila requests to improve execution.