Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 18th International
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2132-0
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303222
