Agent-Based Grid Load Balancing Using Performance-Driven Task Scheduling
IPDPS '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Market-based Proportional Resource Sharing for Clusters
Market-based Proportional Resource Sharing for Clusters
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Resource Management Using Untrusted Auctioneers in a Grid Economy
E-SCIENCE '06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Market-Based Task Allocation Mechanisms for Limited-Capacity Suppliers
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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While most grids and clusters are built from uniform nodes of new hardware, the notion of a grid of obsolete computers rescued from the scrapheap appeals in several ways such as lower environmental and financial cost. Existing resource allocation mechanisms, in assuming that nodes are equally capable, equally power efficient and equally reliable, fail to cater for the distinct features of an e-waste grid. This paper presents a resource allocation mechanism explicitly designed with the features of such an e-waste grid in mind, proposes an objective function to assess the mechanism, and tests the mechanism against two existing resource allocation mechanisms. In simulated tests of the three mechanisms, the new mechanism performs better than the other two, particularly under heavy load.