SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids

by Rajiv Ranjan et al. arXiv.org E-print Archive, 15 May 2006 The Service Level Agreement (SLA) based grid superscheduling approach promotes coordinated resource sharing. Superscheduling is facilitated between administratively and topologically distributed grid sites by grid schedulers such as Resource brokers. In this work, we present a market-based SLA coordination mechanism. We based our SLA model on a well-known contract net protocol. The key advantages of our approach are that it allows: (i) resource owners to have finer degree of control over the resource allocation that was previously not possible through traditional mechanism and (ii) superschedulers to bid for SLA contracts in the contract net with focus on completing the job within the user specified deadline. In this work, we use simulation to show the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Read more