Application execution management on the InteGrade opportunistic grid middleware

作者：da Silva e Silva Francisco Jose; Kon Fabio; Goldman Alfredo; Finger Marcelo; de Camargo Raphael Y; Castor Filho Fernando; Costa Fabio M

来源：Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2010, 70(5): 573-583.

DOI：10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.01.010

• Grid computing
• Opportunistic grid
• Resource management
• Fault tolerance

The InteGrade project is a multi-university effort to build a novel grid computing middleware based on the opportunistic use of resources belonging to user workstations. The InteGrade middleware currently enables the execution of sequential, bag-of-tasks, and parallel applications that follow the BSP or the MPI programming models.
This article presents the lessons learned over the last five years of the InteGrade development and describes the solutions achieved concerning the support for robust application execution. The contributions cover the related fields of application scheduling, execution management, and fault tolerance. We present our solutions, describing their implementation principles and evaluation through the analysis of several experimental results.

• 出版日期2010-5