Title :
Scheduling workflow applications in GrADS
Author :
Mandal, Anirban ; Dasgupta, Anshuman ; Kennedy, Ken ; Mazina, Mark ; Koelbel, Charles ; Marin, Gabriel ; Cooper, Keith ; Mellor-Crummey, John ; Liu, Bo ; Johnsson, Lennart
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
Abstract :
In this work, we describe new strategies for scheduling and executing workflow applications on Grid resources using the GrADS infrastructure. Workflow scheduling is based on heuristic scheduling strategies that use combined computational and memory hierarchy application component performance models. The workflow is executed using a novel strategy to bind and launch the application onto heterogeneous resources. We apply these strategies in the context of launching EMAN, a bio-imaging workflow application, onto the Grid.
Keywords :
biomedical imaging; grid computing; performance evaluation; resource allocation; scheduling; workflow management software; EMAN; GrADS; Grid resources; application component performance models; bio-imaging workflow application; heterogeneous resources; heuristic scheduling; memory hierarchy; workflow application scheduling; Application software; Computer science; Dynamic scheduling; Grid computing; Processor scheduling; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software tools; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004. CCGrid 2004. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8430-X
DOI :
10.1109/CCGrid.2004.1336714