A Study of Grid Applications: Scheduling Perspective

: As the Grid evolves from a high performance cluster middleware to a multipurpose utility computing framework, a good understanding of Grid applications, their statistics and utilisation patterns is required. This study looks at job execution times and resource utilisations in a Grid environment, and their significance in cluster and network dimensioning, local level scheduling and resource management.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lionel Sacks
• Keywords: CORR 2007, Education, Grid, Performance Cluster Middleware, Utility Computing Framework