Advanced Reservation and Co-Allocation of Grid Resources: A Step towards an invisible Grid

Abstract

The grid resource management mainly concerns with provision of the grid resources on-demand. Grid resources are heterogeneous in nature, distributed under multiple trust domains and controlled by their local management systems. In order to provide a grid level smart and robust resource management that shields the grid middleware complexities, we need a better control over grid resources. A mechanism for the provision of service level agreement (SLA) between resource requester and provider could leads us to achieve this goal. Advanced reservation is a promise by the system that a certain resource capability would be available some time in future. In this paper we propose a distributed system for advanced reservation and co-allocation of the grid resources in which clients can negotiate with resource provider for the better compromise between application requirements and resource capabilities