Tunable Scheduling in a GridRPC Framework

Abdelkader Amar (1, 2) , Raphaël Bolze (3, 2) , Yves Caniou (3, 2) , Eddy Caron (3, 2) , Andreea Chis (4) , Frédéric Desprez (3, 2) , Benjamin Depardon (5, 2) , Jean-Sébastien Gay (3, 2) , Gaël Le Mahec (6) , David Loureiro (2)

1 LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
2 GRAAL - Algorithms and Scheduling for Distributed Heterogeneous Platforms
3 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
4 ARES - Architectures of networks of services
5 SysFera [Villeurbanne]
6 MIS - Modélisation, Information et Systèmes - UR UPJV 4290

Among existing grid middleware approaches, one simple, powerful, and flexible approach consists of using servers available in different administrative domains through the classic client-server or Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm. Network Enabled Servers (NES) implement this model also called GridRPC. Clients submit computation requests to a scheduler whose goal is to find a server available on the grid using some performance metric. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of a NES middleware developed in the GRAAL team called DIET and to describe recent developments around plugin schedulers, workflow management, and tools. DIET (Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox) is a hierarchical set of components used for the development of applications based on computational servers on the grid.

Mots clés: Grid Computing; Scheduling; Workflow Management; Middleware Deployment; GridRPC; DIET

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Abdelkader Amar, Raphaël Bolze, Yves Caniou, Eddy Caron, Andreea Chis, et al.. Tunable Scheduling in a GridRPC Framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2008, 20 (9), pp.1051-1069. ⟨10.1002/cpe.1283⟩. ⟨hal-01428209⟩