A computational economy for grid computing and its implementation in the Nimrod-G resource broker
Future Generation Computer Systems - Grid computing: Towards a new computing infrastructure
Simgrid: A Toolkit for the Simulation of Application Scheduling
CCGRID '01 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Analyzing Market-Based Resource Allocation Strategies for the Computational Grid
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
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Grid technologies enable the sharing and coordinated use of diverse resources distributed all over the world. These resources are owned by different organizations having different policies and objectives which need to be considered in making the resource allocation decisions. In such complex environments market-based resource allocation protocols are a better alternative to the classical ones because they take into consideration the policies and preferences of both users and resource owners. The only suitable solution for investigating the effectiveness of these resource allocation protocols over a wide range of scenarios with reproducible results is to consider simulations. Thus in this paper we present Mercatus, a simulation toolkit that facilitates the simulation of market-based resource allocation protocols. We describe the model and the structure of Mercatus and present experimental results obtained by simulating three types of auction-based resource allocation protocols.