Application execution management on the InteGrade opportunistic grid middleware

  • Authors:
  • Francisco José da Silva e Silva;Fabio Kon;Alfredo Goldman;Marcelo Finger;Raphael Y. de Camargo;Fernando Castor Filho;Fábio M. Costa

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Maranhão, Department of Informatics, São Luís, Brazil;University of São Paulo, Department of Computer Science, São Paulo, Brazil;University of São Paulo, Department of Computer Science, São Paulo, Brazil;University of São Paulo, Department of Computer Science, São Paulo, Brazil;Federal University of ABC, Santo André, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Informatics Center, Recife, Brazil;Federal University of Goiás, Institute of Informatics, Goiínia, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The InteGrade project is a multi-university effort to build a novel grid computing middleware based on the opportunistic use of resources belonging to user workstations. The InteGrade middleware currently enables the execution of sequential, bag-of-tasks, and parallel applications that follow the BSP or the MPI programming models. This article presents the lessons learned over the last five years of the InteGrade development and describes the solutions achieved concerning the support for robust application execution. The contributions cover the related fields of application scheduling, execution management, and fault tolerance. We present our solutions, describing their implementation principles and evaluation through the analysis of several experimental results.