A Resource Brokering Infrastructure for Computational Grids

Authors:
Ahmed Al-Theneyan;Piyush Mehrotra;Mohammad Zubair
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HiPC '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

With the advances in the networking infrastructure in general, and the Internet in specific, we can build grid environments that allow users to utilize a diverse set of distributed and heterogeneous resources. Since the focus of such environments is the efficient usage of the underlying resources, a critical component is the brokering module that mediates the discovery, access and usage of these resources. One of the major tasks of the brokering module is brokering of resources. With the consumer's constraints, provider's rules, distributed heterogeneous resources and the large number of scheduling choices, the brokering module needs to decide where to place the user's jobs and when to start their execution in a way that yields the best performance to the user and the best utilization to the resource provider. In this paper we present the design and implementation of a flexible, extensible and generic policy-based resource brokering infrastructure for computational grids following a layered fa莽ade design pattern and using XML as the underlying specification language. We also describe a testbed environment and our efforts at integrating it with several grid systems.