A Rental-Based Approach in a Cluster or a Grid Environment

We examine the benefits of a rental based cluster system in supporting high-performance applications. We evaluate the cost of five rental policies and demonstrate how resources from third party external resource providers can be efficiently obtained to accommodate sudden bursts in demand for resources by high performance computing applications. Our evaluation demonstrated that the proposed policies can achieve a balance between performance and usage cost, and show how they are able to attain higher profit by lowering both penalty and rental costs.