Grid resource allocation: allocation mechanisms and utilisation patterns

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Krawczyk;Kris Bubendorfer

  • Affiliations:
  • Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • AusGrid '08 Proceedings of the sixth Australasian workshop on Grid computing and e-research - Volume 82
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Grid systems have been put to remarkable use in recent years. Finding planets, rendering multi-million dollar movies, and helping to understand disease are just some of the examples grid systems have been used for. With business turning to towards using grid systems and looking to make them global mechanisms for service delivery, they are nicely poised to be an exciting future prospect. However the performance of a grid system is strongly related to how well grid resource allocation is performed. With many possible approaches to grid resource allocation we have to ask the question, what impact does the choice of resource allocation methodology have on the utilisation and performance of a Grid system? This paper addresses this question through the investigation of the characteristic allocation patterns for three different resource allocation mechanisms and their subsequent effect on resource utilisation within a simulated Grid system.