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A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing

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Author	Estrada, Trilce Fuentes, Olac Taufer, Michela
Abstract	Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that takes advantage of idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale, loosely coupled simulations. A big challenge in VC projects is the scheduling of work-units across heterogeneous, volatile, and error-prone computers. The design of efficient scheduling policies for VC projects involves subjective and time-demanding tuning that is driven by knowledge of the project designer. VC projects are in need of a faster and project-independent method to automate the scheduling design. To automatically generate a scheduling policy, we must explore the extremely large space of syntactically valid policies. Given the size of this search space, exhaustive search is not feasible. Thus in this paper we propose to solve the problem using an evolutionary method to automatically generate a set of scheduling policies that are project-independent, minimize errors, and maximize throughput in VC projects. Our method includes a genetic algorithm where the representation of individuals, the fitness function, and the genetic operators are specifically tailored to get effective policies in a short time. The effectiveness of our method is evaluated with SimBA, a Simulator of BOINC Applications. In contrast with manually designed scheduling policies that often perform well only for the specific project they were designed for and require months of tuning, our resulting scheduling policies provide better overall throughput across the different VC projects considered in this work and were generated by our method in a time window of one week.
Starting Page	40
Ending Page	49
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635999
DOI	10.1145/1481506.1481515
Journal	ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PERV)
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-01-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Global computing Distributed systems Volatile systems Genetic algorithms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software

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