PhD Qualifying Examination


"A Survey on Grid Scheduling Systems"

By Mr. Yanmin Zhu


Abstract:

Thanks to vast improvements in wide-area network performance and powerful
yet low-cost computers, Grid computing has emerged as a promising
attractive computing paradigm. Computational Grids aim to aggregate the
power of heterogeneous, geo-graphically distributed,
multiple-domain-spanning computational resources to provide high
performance or high-throughput computing. To achieve the promising
potentials of computational Grids, an effective and efficient scheduling
system is fundamentally important.

Scheduling systems for traditional distributed environments do not work in
Grid envi-ronments because the two classes of environments are radically
distinct. Scheduling in Grid environments is significantly complicated by
the unique characteristics of Grids. This survey focuses on the design of
scheduling systems for computational Grids. First, this survey
investigates challenges for designing scheduling system for computational
Grids. Second, a Grid scheduling framework and a common Grid scheduler
architecture are proposed. Next, a comprehensive taxonomy for describing
Grid scheduling systems is also presented. Finally, a number of
representative Grid scheduling systems are surveyed in detail.



Date:     		Thursday, 29 January 2004

Time:                   3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 2503
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
                        Prof. Cunsheng Ding (Chairperson)
			Prof. Gary Chan
			Prof. Qiong Luo


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