Meta-scheduling issues in interoperable HPCs, grids and clouds

Nik Bessis, Stelios Sotiriadis, Fatos Xhafa, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea
2012 International Journal of Web and Grid Services  
Over the last years, interoperability among resources has been emerged as one of the most challenging research topics. However, the commonality of the complexity of the architectures (e.g. heterogeneity) and the targets that each computational paradigmincluding HPC, grids and clouds -aims to achieve (e.g. flexibility) remain the same. This is to efficiently orchestrate resources in a distributed computing fashion by bridging the gap among local and remote participants. Initially, this is
more » ... related with the scheduling concept which is one of the most important issues for designing a cooperative resource management system, especially in large scale settings such as in grids and clouds. Within this context, meta-scheduling offers additional functionalities in the area of interoperable resource management, this is because of its great agility to handle sudden variations and dynamic situations in user demands. Accordingly, the case of inter-infrastructures, including InterCloud, entitle that the decentralised meta-scheduling scheme overcome issues like consolidated administration management, bottleneck and local information exposition. In this work, we detail the fundamental issues for developing an effective interoperable meta-scheduler for e-infrastructures in general and InterCloud in particular. Finally, we describe a simulation and experimental configuration based on real grid workload traces to demonstrate the interoperable setting as well as provide experimental results as part of a strategic plan for integrating future meta-schedulers. N. Bessis et al. (UK). His research interests have particular focus on the study and use of next generation including grid technologies and inter-cloud computing methods for the benefit of various virtual organizational settings. Nik has successfully involved in (£2m) and led (£0.6m) of funded research and commercial projects in these areas. Prof. Bessis has published over 120 papers, won 2 best paper awards and is the editor of several books and the Editor-in-Chief of the IJDST. In addition, Prof. Bessis is a regular reviewer and has served several times as a keynote speaker, conferences/workshops/track chair, associate editor, session chair and scientific program committee member. Stelios Sotiriadis is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, a PhD research student and a research associate member Algorithms. As a PhD supervisor he directs thesis on Grids and Distributed Computing. Valentin Cristea is Director of the National Center for Information Technology of UPB and leads the laboratories of Collaborative High Performance Computing and eBusiness. He is an IT Expert of the World Bank, Coordinator of national and international projects in IT, member of program committees of several IT Conferences (IWCC, ISDAS, ICT, etc), reviewer of ACM.
doi:10.1504/ijwgs.2012.048403 fatcat:r76hxcmjprfxdhr5mmne4cdhii