A resource management architecture for metacomputing systems.
Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is complicated by five concerns that do not typically arise in other situations: site autonomy and heterogeneous substrates at the resources, and application requirements for policy extensibility, co-allocation, and online control. We describe a resource management architecture that addresses these concerns. This architecture distributes the resource management problem among distinct local manager, resource broker, and resource co-allocator components and defines an extensible resource specification language to exchange information about requirements. We describe how these techniques have been implemented in the context of the Globus metacomputing toolkit and used to implement a variety of different resource management strategies. We report on our experiences applying our techniques in a large testbed, GUSTO, incorporating 15 sites, 330 computers, and 3600 processors.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 11947
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MCS/CP-99886; TRN: AH200119%%217
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '98), Orlando, FL (US), 03/30/1998--04/03/1998; Other Information: PBD: 24 Aug 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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