New grid scheduling and rescheduling methods in the GrADS project

Author

Cooper, K. ; Dasgupta, A. ; Kennedy, K. ; Koelbel, C. ; Mandal, A. ; Marin, G. ; Mazina, M. ; Mellor-Crummey, J. ; Berman, F. ; Casanova, H. ; Chien, A. ; Dail, H. ; Liu, X. ; Olugbile, A. ; Sievert, O. ; Xia, H. ; Johnsson, L. ; Liu, B. ; Patel, M. ; Ree

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

26-30 April 2004

Firstpage

199

Abstract

Summary form only given. The goal of the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) project is to provide programming tools and an execution environment to ease program development for the grid. We present recent extensions to the GrADS software framework: 1. A new approach to scheduling workflow computations, applied to a 3D image reconstruction application; 2. A simple stop/migrate/restart approach to rescheduling grid applications, applied to a QR 3. A process-swapping approach to rescheduling, applied to an N-body simulation. Experiments validating these methods were carried out on both the GrADS MacroGrid (a small but functional grid) and the MicroGrid (a controlled emulation of the grid) and the results were demonstrated at the SC2003 conference.

Keywords

grid computing; image reconstruction; processor scheduling; programming environments; software tools; workflow management software; 3D image reconstruction application; GrADS project; Grid Application Development Software project; MacroGrid; MicroGrid; N-body simulation; grid rescheduling; grid scheduling; process-swapping approach; program development; programming tool; workflow computation scheduling; Application software; Computer science; Contracts; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Instruments; Processor scheduling; Runtime; Software tools; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 18th International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2132-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303222

Filename

1303222