Blue Gene®/P is a massively parallel supercomputer intended as the successor to Blue Gene/L. It leverages much of the existing architecture of its predecessor to provide scalability up to a petaflop of peak com...
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In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resourcemanagement in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex task as it has to cope with differen...
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(纸本)9783540744658
In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resourcemanagement in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex task as it has to cope with different policies and objectives of the different parties: providers and consumers/users. Agreement-based resourcemanagement is considered to solve many of these problems as the conflicts between the users and resource providers can be reconciled in a negotiation process. Such negotiation processes must be automated with no or minimal human interaction, considering the potential scale of Grid systems and the amount of necessary transactions. Therefore, strategic negotiation models and strategic negotiation strategies play important roles. In this paper, negotiation strategies considering time and opportunity functions for Grid scheduling are proposed and examined. The simulation results demonstrate that the negotiation strategies are suitable and effective for Grid environments.
Grid Computing is becoming a prominent field of interest for distributedsystems. The capability to support resource sharing between different organizations and the high level of performance are noteworthy features. H...
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(纸本)9780769527840
Grid Computing is becoming a prominent field of interest for distributedsystems. The capability to support resource sharing between different organizations and the high level of performance are noteworthy features. However, to define, deploy and execute Grid Applications require significant design effort and complex resource coordination, which can be alleviated by using Workflow managementsystems. This technology is more and more adopted in distributedsystems and Grids since it ensures easiness and flexibility at design-time and performance and dynamicity at run-time. This paper gives a contribution to performance improvements of workflow by presenting a technique to exploit fine-grained concurrency at run-time. The technique is implemented in a workflow enactment service that dynamically optimizes process execution limiting the design effort of application developers.
Non-dedicated loosely coupled systems are popular platforms for cluster- and grid-based parallel processing, fundamentally because they have good cost-performance ratios and are scalable. However, these platforms repr...
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Non-dedicated loosely coupled systems are popular platforms for cluster- and grid-based parallel processing, fundamentally because they have good cost-performance ratios and are scalable. However, these platforms represent highly dynamic environments in which performance and efficiency can be seriously impacted by changes in environmental conditions. This is especially significant where the runtime configuration has been determined statically, either at compilation time or at the start of execution. This paper introduces the concept of agile parallel processing in which the application manages several aspects of its own run-time behaviour, including deployment granularity. This approach reduces the emphasis on the preconfiguration of components, and relies instead on inbuilt learning and discovery capabilities. To facilitate investigation into the extent to which a self-managing approach can be beneficial to parallel processing, an experimental framework has been developed. The framework provides a range of services such as dynamic worker discovery and performance calibration, and policy-controlled facilities such as resourcemanagement and adaptation to suit environmental conditions. The framework integrates these services with the parallel application code. The operation and performance of policy-based dynamic deployment scheduling in dynamic environments is analysed in detail.
We present a contribution on dynamic load balancing for distributed and parallel object-oriented applications. We specially target peer-to-peer systems and their capability to distribute parallel computation. Using an...
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(纸本)9783540710349
We present a contribution on dynamic load balancing for distributed and parallel object-oriented applications. We specially target peer-to-peer systems and their capability to distribute parallel computation. Using an algorithm for active-object load balancing, we simulate the balance of a parallel application over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. We tune the algorithm parameters in order to obtain the best performance, concluding that our IFL algorithm behaves very well and scales to large peer-to-peer networks (around 8,000 nodes).
schedulingparallel and distributed applications efficiently onto grid environments is a difficult task and a great variety of scheduling heuristics have been developed aiming to address this issue. A successful grid ...
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(纸本)9781595939449
schedulingparallel and distributed applications efficiently onto grid environments is a difficult task and a great variety of scheduling heuristics have been developed aiming to address this issue. A successful grid resource allocation depends, among other things, on the quafhy of the available information about software artifacts and grid resources. In this paper, we propose a semantic approach to integrate selection of equivalent resources and selection of equivalent software artifacts in order to improve the schedule of resources suitable for a given set of application execution requirements. We also describe a prototype implementation of our approach based on the Integrade grid middleware and experimental results that indicate its benefits. Copyright 2007 ACM.
Non-dedicated loosely coupled systems are popular platforms for cluster- and grid-based parallel processing, fundamentally because they have good cost-performance ratios and are scalable. However, these platforms repr...
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Non-dedicated loosely coupled systems are popular platforms for cluster- and grid-based parallel processing, fundamentally because they have good cost-performance ratios and are scalable. However, these platforms represent highly dynamic environments in which performance and efficiency can be seriously impacted by changes in environmental conditions. This is especially significant where the runtime configuration has been determined statically, either at compilation time or at the start of execution. This paper introduces the concept of agile parallel processing in which the application manages several aspects of its own run-time behaviour, including deployment granularity. This approach reduces the emphasis on the preconfiguration of components, and relies instead on inbuilt learning and discovery capabilities. To facilitate investigation into the extent to which a self-managing approach can be beneficial to parallel processing, an experimental framework has been developed. The framework provides a range of services such as dynamic worker discovery and performance calibration, and policy-controlled facilities such as resourcemanagement and adaptation to suit environmental conditions. The framework integrates these services with the parallel application code. The operation and performance of policy-based dynamic deployment scheduling in dynamic environments is analysed in detail.
The environment of firms and market requirements necessitates a performance increased by the product flux management in the course of their manufacture. This management plays a certain number of functions among which ...
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(纸本)9789728865986
The environment of firms and market requirements necessitates a performance increased by the product flux management in the course of their manufacture. This management plays a certain number of functions among which the scheduling of workshop is taking more and more importance. This article presents an approach which takes into account robustness and flexibility of a real time scheduling, by defining and undertaking an interactive decision support system. We develop a structure of piloting and supervising of distributed and integrated, as well as reactive workshop. Independent modules of piloting in the latter allow organizing resource tasks and adapting generated plans according to disturbances. As support to modelling and decisional system implantation, we propose a multi-agent system. The agent actions of the same hierarchical level become concrete across the analysis and reaction procedures. The decision centres negotiate compromises to solve conflicts, under the control of a supervisor entity.
The parallel ROOT Facility (PROOF) enables interactive analysis of distributed data sets in a transparent way. PROOF, which represents an alternative to batch-oriented distributed computing systems, is being successfu...
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In global Grid computing, users and resource providers organize various Virtual Organizations (VOs) to share resources and services. A VO organizes other sub-VOs for the purpose of achieving the VO goal, which forms h...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424415595
In global Grid computing, users and resource providers organize various Virtual Organizations (VOs) to share resources and services. A VO organizes other sub-VOs for the purpose of achieving the VO goal, which forms hierarchical VO environments. resource providers and VOs agree upon VO resource sharing policies, such as resource sharing amount. Thus, users in lower-layer VOs can access resources in higher-layer VOs to accomplish their common goals. In this paper, we deal with fair resource allocation problem in hierarchical VOs, so that an appropriate proportion of a VO resource for each lower-layer VO is analyzed. In addition, we provide a resource allocation scheme based on these predefined proportions. Simulation results show that the proposed approach gives better fairness as well as performance compared with other schemes.
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