MaGate Simulator: A Simulation Environment for a Decentralized Grid Scheduler

Abstract. This paper presents a simulator for of a decentralized modular grid scheduler named MaGate. MaGate’s design emphasizes scheduler interoperability by providing intelligent scheduling serving the grid community as a whole. Each MaGate scheduler instance is able to deal with dynamic scheduling conditions, with continuously arriving grid jobs. Received jobs are either allocated on local resources, or delegated to other MaGates for remote execution. The proposed MaGate simulator is based im toolkit and Alea simulator, and abstracts the features and behaviors of complex fundamental grid elements, such as grid jobs, grid resources, and grid users. Simulation of scheduling tasks is supported by a grid network overlay simulator executing distributed ant-based swarm intelligence algorithms to provide services such as group communication and resource discovery. For evaluation, a comparison of behaviors of different collaborative policies among a community of MaGates is provided. Resul...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: APPT
• Authors: Ye Huang, Amos Brocco, Michèle Courant, Béat Hirsbrunner, Pierre Kuonen
• Keywords: APPT 2009, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Grid, Grid Jobs, Grid Scheduler