NDLI: Saline: Improving Best-Effort Job Management in Grids

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gallard, J. Morin, C. Lebre, A.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Virtualization technologies have recently gained a lot of interest in Grid computing as they allow flexible resource management. However, the most common way to exploit grids relies on dedicated services like resource management systems (RMSs) to get resources at a particular time. To improve resource usage, most of these systems provide a best-effort mode where lowest priority jobs can be executed when resources are idle. This particular mode does not provide any guarantee of service and jobs may be killed at any time by the RMS when the nodes they use are subject to higher priority reservations. This behaviour potentially leads to a huge waste of computation time or at least requires users to deal with checkpoints of their jobs. In this paper we present Saline, a generic and non-intrusive framework to manage best-effort jobs at grid level through virtual machines (VMs) usage. We discuss the main challenges concerning the design of such a grid system, focusing on VM snapshot management and network configuration. Results of experiments show our proposal ensures an efficient execution of best-effort jobs through the whole grid.
Starting Page	575
Ending Page	579
File Size	243930
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424456727
ISSN	10666192
e-ISBN	9781424456734
DOI	10.1109/PDP.2010.61
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-02-17
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Resource management Virtual manufacturing Checkpointing Grid computing Voice mail Virtual machining Proposals Wide area networks Prototypes Computer network management Best-Effort Jobs Saline Virtualization Grid Resource Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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