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A Comparative Analysis Between EGEE and GridWay Workload Management Systems

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (OTM 2006)

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Metascheduling is a key functionality of the grid middleware in order to achieve a reasonable degree of performance and reliability, given the changing conditions of the computing environment. In this contribution a comparative analysis between two major grid scheduling philosophies is shown: a semi-centralized approach, represented by the EGEE Workload Management System, and a fully distributed approach, represented by the GridWay Metascheduler. This comparative is both theoretical, through a functionality checklist, and experimental, through the execution of a fusion plasma application on the EGEE infrastructure.

This research was supported by Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and Fondo Social Europeo (FSE), through BIOGRIDNET Research Program S-0505/TIC/000101, and by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, through the research grant TIC2003-01321. The authors participate in the EGEE project, funded by the European Union.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914952_55.

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Vázquez-Poletti, J.L., Huedo, E., Montero, R.S., Llorente, I.M. (2006). A Comparative Analysis Between EGEE and GridWay Workload Management Systems. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914952_5

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