Research Article
A Peer-to-Peer Meta-Scheduler for Service-Oriented Grid Environments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/gridnets.2007.2164, author={Kay Dornemann and Jorg Prenzer and Bernd Freislebe}, title={A Peer-to-Peer Meta-Scheduler for Service-Oriented Grid Environments}, proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={GRIDNETS}, year={2007}, month={10}, keywords={meta-scheduling Grid computing peer-to-peer computing ant colonies}, doi={10.4108/gridnets.2007.2164} }- Kay Dornemann
Jorg Prenzer
Bernd Freislebe
Year: 2007
A Peer-to-Peer Meta-Scheduler for Service-Oriented Grid Environments
GRIDNETS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/gridnets.2007.2164
Abstract
Meta-scheduling in a Grid is aimed at enabling the efficient sharing of computing resources managed by different local schedulers within a single organization or scattered across several administrative domains. Since current Grid metaschedulers operate in a centralized fashion and thus are single points of failure, we present a distributed meta-scheduler for a service-oriented Grid environment based on peer-to-peer (P2P) networking techniques and ant colony optimization algorithms adapted to a P2P network. In the proposed approach, the meta-scheduling process provides automatic load balancing, is completely decentralized, fault tolerant, scalable, and does not require complex administration. Experimental results demonstrate that scheduling decisions are made quickly and lead to a good balance of the computational load.