On the Feasibility of Decentralized Grid Scheduling

Many authors recognize the limitations of hierarchical Grid scheduling in scalable environments, and proposed peer-to-peer solutions to this problem. However, most peerto-peer grid resource management systems allow only to discover available resources at the time of the request. We claim that peer-to-peer techniques have the potential for actual Grid scheduling, where each resource maintains a schedule of its future allocation to jobs. We present such a protocol, which additionally allows users to specify desired properties about the requested schedules.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Marco Fiscato, Paolo Costa, Guillaume Pierre
• Keywords: Actual Grid Scheduling, Grid Scheduling, Hierarchical Grid Scheduling, SASO 2008, Self-Organizing Systems