TY - GEN
T1 - Fault-aware scheduling for Bag-of-Tasks applications on Desktop Grids
AU - Anglano, Cosimo
AU - Brevik, John
AU - Canonico, Massimo
AU - Nurmi, Dan
AU - Wolski, Rich
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability of scheduling techniques able to effectively deal with resource failures and/or unplanned periods of unavailability. In this paper we present a set of fault-aware scheduling policies that, rather than just tolerating faults as done by traditional fault-tolerant schedulers, exploit the information concerning resource availability to improve application performance. The performance of these strategies have been compared via simulation with those attained by traditional fault-tolerant schedulers. Our results, obtained by consider a set of realistic scenarios modeled after real Desktop Grids, show that our approach results in better application performance and resource utilization.
AB - Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability of scheduling techniques able to effectively deal with resource failures and/or unplanned periods of unavailability. In this paper we present a set of fault-aware scheduling policies that, rather than just tolerating faults as done by traditional fault-tolerant schedulers, exploit the information concerning resource availability to improve application performance. The performance of these strategies have been compared via simulation with those attained by traditional fault-tolerant schedulers. Our results, obtained by consider a set of realistic scenarios modeled after real Desktop Grids, show that our approach results in better application performance and resource utilization.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46149085647&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.310998
DO - 10.1109/ICGRID.2006.310998
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46149085647
SN - 1424403448
SN - 9781424403448
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
SP - 56
EP - 63
BT - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, GRID 2006
T2 - 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, GRID 2006
Y2 - 28 September 2006 through 29 September 2006
ER -