Overview of a Performance Evaluation System for Global Computing Scheduling Algorithms

While there have been several proposals of high performance global computing systems, scheduling schemes for the systems have not been well investigated. The reason is difficulties of evaluation by large-scale benchmarks with reproducible results. Our Bricks performance evaluation system would allow analysis and comparison of various scheduling schemes on a typical high-performance global computing setting. Bricks can simulate various behaviors of global computing systems, especially the behavior of networks and resource scheduling algorithms. Moreover, Bricks is componentalized such that not only its constituents could be replaced to simulate various different system algorithms, but also allows incorporation of existing global computing components via its foreign interface. To test the validity of the latter characteristics, we incorporated the NWS system, which monitors and forecasts global computing systems behavior. Experiments were conducted by running NWS under a real environmen...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Atsuko Takefusa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidemoto Nakada, Kento Aida, Umpei Nagashima
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Global Computing, Global Computing Systems, HPDC 1999, Scheduling Schemes