Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids

TitleImprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsHollingsworth J, Maneewongvatana S
Conference NameDistributed Computing Systems, International Conference on
Date Published1999///
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Conference LocationLos Alamitos, CA, USA
ISBN Number0-7695-0222-9
Keywordsparallel computing distributed scheduling computational grid batch scheduler meta computing
Abstract

We describe imprecise calendars, a way to organize and schedule clusters of nodes in a computation grid. Imprecise calendars permit the easy and efficient sharing of resources between different clusters of computers that are part of a computational grid. In addition, they can be used to provide specific time reservations for applications. We describe the algorithms and policies for manipulation of imprecise calendars. We also include a series of simulation studies that compare our approach to previous batch scheduling systems for both a single cluster and collection of clusters up to over 3,000 nodes.

DOI10.1109/ICDCS.1999.776537