Analysis of Jobs in a Multi-Organizational Grid Test-bed

The inevitable move from a single large scale server to a distributed Grid environment is beginning to be realized across international Grid test-bed like Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). Although jobs submitted to a single large server have been widely analyzed, job characteristics in a Grid environment are different as we found in our analysis of jobs submitted in the PRAGMA Grid test-bed. This paper reports on the analysis of jobs submitted across the PRAGMA Grid test-bed. The job types are categorized and the runtime of jobs is captured, using the MultiOrganization Grid Accounting System (MOGAS), and analyzed. The number of jobs submitted across organizations, indicating the level of resource sharing among participants, is also captured by the system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Bu-Sung Lee, Ming Tang, Junwei Zhang, Yew-Soon Ong, Cindy Zheng, Peter W. Arzberger, David Abramson
• Keywords: CCGRID 2006, Cluster Computing, Grid, Grid Environment, PRAGMA Grid