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To make full use of grid resources and to meet users’ requirements, efficient scheduling is a key concern in grid environments. Aiming at grid-based engineering computation applications, this paper proposes a Quality of Service (QoS) driven user-centric scheduling strategy. Firstly, degree of credit and degree of guarantee are defined, and aggregate utility ratio is modeled as a composite QoS; Secondly, for different types of grid users, two scheduling methods and steering-enabled visual interfaces are presented, respectively; Thirdly, four performance metrics and aggregate utility ratio are visualized to facilitate the user’s interaction with scheduling; Finally, corresponding post-scheduling mechanisms are designed to cope with scenarios where scheduled tasks could not obtain expected QoS. This study is part of a grid project, MASSIVE, and the experiments show that the visual scheduling strategy presented is suitable for computational grids.
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Huang, C., Song, G., Zheng, Y. (2004). Quality-of-Service Driven Visual Scheduling in Grid Computing. In: Jin, H., Pan, Y., Xiao, N., Sun, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2004 Workshops. GCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30207-0_91
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