Cluster-wide context switch of virtualized jobs

Clusters are mostly used through Resources Management Systems (RMS) with a static allocation of resources for a bounded amount of time. Those approaches are known to be insufficient for an efficient use of clusters. To provide a finer RMS, job preemption, migration and dynamic allocation of resources are required. However due to the complexity of developing and using such mechanisms, advanced scheduling strategies have rarely been deployed. This trend is currently evolving thanks to the use of migration and preemption capabilities of Virtual Machines (VMs). However, although the manipulation of jobs composed of VM enables to change the state of the jobs according to the scheduling objective, changing the state and the location of numerous VMs at each decision is tedious and degrades the overall performance. In addition to the scheduling policy implementation, developers have to focus on the feasibility of the actions while executing them in the most efficient way. In this paper, we ar...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Fabien Hermenier, Adrien Lebre, Jean-Marc Menaud
• Keywords: Cluster-wide Context Switch, Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPDC 2010, Resources Management Systems, Scheduling Policy Implementation