Investigating Resource Allocation in a Standards-Based Grid Compute Economy

摘要

This paper investigates the use of emerging web service and grid computing standards to support resource allocation in a simulated grid compute economy. In this simulated economy, client consumer and service providers, acting independently, employ standards-based software components to enter into service-level agreements that assign grid resources to client tasks. To investigate whether standards-based components can be used to create viable resource allocations in a grid compute economy, a series of trials is conducted using a simulation model. In these trials, workload is varied over a simulated workday from moderate to overload levels.