Virtual Resources Allocation for Workflow-Based Applications Distribution on a Cloud Infrastructure

Abstract--Cloud computing infrastructures are providing resources on demand for tackling the needs of large-scale distributed applications. Determining the amount of resources to allocate for a given computation is a difficult problem though. This paper introduces and compares four automated resource allocation strategies relying on the expertise that can be captured in workflow-based applications. The evaluation of these strategies was carried out on the Aladdin/Grid'5000 testbed using a real application from the area of medical image analysis. Experimental results show that optimized allocation can help finding a tradeoff between amount of resources consumed and applications makespan.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Tram Truong Huu, Johan Montagnat
• Keywords: CCGRID 2010, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Large-scale Distributed Applications, Resource Allocation Strategies, Resources