Creating Services with Hard Guarantees from Cycle-Harvesting Systems

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

5-2003

Abstract

Cycle-harvesting is a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating commercial service contracts based on resources made available by cycle- harvesting is a significant challenge: the characteristics of the harvested resources are inherently stochastic; and secondly, in a commercial environment, purchasers can expect providers to optimize against the quality of service (QoS) definitions. The essential point for creating commerc ally valuable QoS definitions is to guarantee a set of statistical parameters for each contract instance. Here we describe an appropriate QoS definition, Hard Statistical QoS (HSQ), and show how this can be implemented using a hybrid stochastic-deterministic system. We analyze algorithm behavior analytically using a distribution-free approach versus the expected proportion of deterministic resources required for an HSQ specification. We conclude that commercial service contracts based on cycle-harvested resources are viable both from a conceptual point of view and quantitatively.

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Management Information Systems

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid

First Page

224

ISBN

9780769519197

Identifier

10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199372

City or Country

Tokyo, Japan

Additional URL

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/doi/10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199372

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