Evaluation of an Economy-Based File Replication Strategy for a Data Grid

  • Authors:
  • William H. Bell;David G. Cameron;Ruben Carvajal-Schiaffino;A. Paul Millar;Kurt Stockinger;Floriano Zini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Optimising the use of Grid resources is critical for usersto effectively exploit a Data Grid. Data replication is considered a major technique for reducing data access cost toGrid jobs. This paper evaluates a novel replication strategy, based on an economic model, that optimises both theselection of replicas for running jobs and the dynamic creation of replicas in Grid sites. In our model, optimisationagents are located on Grid sites and use an auction protocol for selecting the optimal replica of a data file and aprediction function to make informed decisions about localdata replication. We evaluate our replication strategy withOptorSim, a Data Grid simulator developed by the authors.The experiments show that our proposed strategy results ina notable improvement over traditional replication strategies in a Grid environment.