Fault-tolerant scalable hierarchical scheduling in grid computing | ||
| The International Conference on Electrical Engineering | ||
| Article 91, Volume 8, 8th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2012, May 2012, Pages 1-27 PDF (902.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iceeng.2012.32716 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Gamal A. El-Sayed; Aref M. Abdullah | ||
| Electrical Engineering Department, Assiut University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Computational grids have the potential for solving large-scale scientific applications using heterogeneous, distributed and possibly non-dedicated resources. Grid environment is dynamic in nature, hence scalable and fault-tolerant scheduling is a much needed to schedule parallel applications with inter-process communication. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical and fault-tolerant scheduling approach, in which the application’s processes communicate indirectly by sending messages over the network through mailbox-based communication technique at a shared node. In grid, process often migrates from one node to another, so this technique ensures the reliable delivery of messages; prevents messages sent to the migrating process form losing. A nonevolutionary mapping heuristic based on Max-Min approach is also proposed for mapping such applications on grid resources. Finally, MPICH-V1 protocol is integrated into our scheduling framework that exploits the mailbox-based technique instead of channel memories. The simulation experimental results demonstrate that, the proposed approach as a whole effectively schedules the grid applications in scalable and fault tolerant way thereby ensures the application to be executed within its deadline making the grid environment trust worthy. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Grid scheduling; fault-tolerance; MPICH-V1; rescheduling; checkpointing | ||
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