Adding Cycle Scavenging Support to the Koala Grid Resource Manager

Cycle scavenging (CS) is the process of using otherwise idle computational resources to provide large, aggregate, amounts of computational power. It is the core principle of so-called desktop grids and volunteer computing, which use the idle cycles of desktop computers to do computations. However, resources in a multicluster grid likewise may...

Trace-based performance analysis of scheduling bags of tasks in grids

Grid computing promises large scale computing facilities based on distributed systems. Much research has been done on the subject of increasing the performance of grids. We believe that an adequate performance analysis of grids requires knowledge of the workload and the architecture of the grid. Currently, researchers assume that grids are...