Fault-tolerant static scheduling for grids

While fault-tolerance is desirable for grid applications because of the distributed and dynamic nature of grid resources, it has seldom been considered in static scheduling. We present a fault-tolerant static scheduler for grid applications that uses task duplication and combines the advantages of static scheduling, namely no overhead for the faultfree case, and of dynamic scheduling, namely low overhead in case of a fault. We also give preliminary experimental results on our scheme.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Bernhard Fechner, Udo Hönig, Jörg Keller, Wolfram Schiffmann
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Fault-tolerant Static Scheduler, Grid Applications, IPPS 2008, Static Scheduling