Scheduling in Grid Based on VO Stakeholders Preferences and Criteria

Abstract

A preference-based approach is proposed for Grid computing with regard to preferences given by various groups of virtual organization (VO) stakeholders (such as users, resource owners and administrators) to improve overall quality of service and resource load efficiency. A specific cyclic job batch scheduling scheme is examined which performs job flow scheduling balancing between the VO stakeholders’ conflicting preferences and policies. Two different job scheduling evaluation functions are proposed to implement fair resource sharing mechanisms.