Fault-aware scheduling for bag-of-tasks applications on desktop grids,” in GRID ’06
| Venue: | IEEE Computer Society |
| Citations: | 10 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Anglano_fault-awarescheduling,
author = {Cosimo Anglano and John Brevik and Massimo Canonico and Dan Nurmi},
title = {Fault-aware scheduling for bag-of-tasks applications on desktop grids,” in GRID ’06},
journal = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {},
pages = {56--63}
}
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Abstract
Abstract — 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. I.
