Toward a doctrine of containment: grid hosting with adaptive resource control

  • Authors:
  • Lavanya Ramakrishnan;David Irwin;Laura Grit;Aydan Yumerefendi;Adriana Iamnitchi;Jeff Chase

  • Affiliations:
  • Renaissance Computing Institute;Duke University;Duke University;Duke University;University of South Florida;Duke University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Grid computing environments need secure resource control and predictable service quality in order to be sustainable. We propose a grid hosting model in which independent, self-contained grid deployments run within isolated containers on shared resource provider sites. Sites and hosted grids interact via an underlying resource control plane to manage a dynamic binding of computational resources to containers. We present a prototype grid hosting system, in which a set of independent Globus grids share a network of cluster sites. Each grid instance runs a coordinator that leases and configures cluster resources for its grid on demand. Experiments demonstrate adaptive provisioning of cluster resources and contrast job-level and container-level resource management in the context of two grid application managers.