A resource management architecture for metacomputing systems [chapter]

Karl Czajkowski, Ian Foster, Nick Karonis, Carl Kesselman, Stuart Martin, Warren Smith, Steven Tuecke
1998 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is complicated by ve concerns that do not typically arise in other situations: site autonomy and heterogeneous substrates at the resources, and application requirements for policy extensibility, co-allocation, and online control. We describe a resource management architecture that addresses these concerns. This architecture
more » ... tes the resource management problem among distinct local manager, resource broker, and resource co-allocator components and denes an extensible resource speci cation language to exchange information about requirements. We describe how these techniques have been implemented in the context of the Globus metacomputing toolkit and used to implement a variety of di erent resource management strategies. We report on our experiences applying our techniques in a large testbed, GUSTO, incorporating 15 sites, 330 computers, and 3600 processors.
doi:10.1007/bfb0053981 fatcat:f4gua73s75ekvo4gkamjgfty5y