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

fYear

2004

fDate

19-22 April 2004

Firstpage

790

Lastpage

797

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004. CCGrid 2004. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8430-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGrid.2004.1336714

Filename

1336714