JOB-CENTRIC SCHEDULING IN A GRID ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A system for scheduling jobs in a networked computing grid having one or more job service components for creating one or more jobs having certain resource requirements is described. The system includes a plurality of resource manager components communicatively linked with the one or more job service components, each resource manager component being configured to manage a plurality of resources. The system further includes one or more information components communicatively linked with the one or more job service components and the plurality of resource manager components, the one or more information components being configured to aggregate resource data obtained from the resource manager components. The one or more jobs include a scheduling mechanism for querying the one or more information components for resource data, comparing the resource data against the resource requirements and independently scheduling the job to one or more of the plurality of resource manager components. A resource reservation is also provided for reserving resources for the jobs. Also described are related methods for performing job-centric scheduling.