Models and scheduling mechanisms for global computing applications
- 1 January 2002
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Proceedings 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Abstract
Projects like SETI@home have demonstrated the tremendous capabilities of Internet-connected commodity resources. The rapid improvement of commodity components makes the global computing platform increasingly viable for other large-scale data and compute-intensive applications. In this paper, we study how global computing can accommodate new types of applications. We describe a global computing model that captures resource characteristics and instantiate this model with data from several surveys and studies. We propose performance metrics for global computing applications and evaluate two scheduling mechanisms in simulation. We then draw conclusions concerning the development and enhancement of global computing systems.Keywords
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