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Chen, Lin. "Process migration and runtime scheduling for parallel tasks in computational grids." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38574172.
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Chen, Lin, and 陳琳. "Process migration and runtime scheduling for parallel tasks in computational grids." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38574172.
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Muranganwa, Raymond. "Design and implementation of a multi-agent opportunistic grid computing platform." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2722.
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Opportunistic Grid Computing involves joining idle computing resources in enterprises into a converged high performance commodity infrastructure. The research described in this dissertation investigates the viability of public resource computing in offering a plethora of possibilities through seamless access to shared compute and storage resources. The research proposes and conceptualizes the Multi-Agent Opportunistic Grid (MAOG) solution in an Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) initiative to address some limitations prevalent in traditional distributed system implementations. Proof-of-concept software components based on JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) validated Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) as an important tool for provisioning of Opportunistic Grid Computing platforms. Exploration of agent technologies within the research context identified two key components which improve access to extended computer capabilities. The first component is a Mobile Agent (MA) compute component in which a group of agents interact to pool shared processor cycles. The compute component integrates dynamic resource identification and allocation strategies by incorporating the Contract Net Protocol (CNP) and rule based reasoning concepts. The second service is a MAS based storage component realized through disk mirroring and Google file-system’s chunking with atomic append storage techniques. This research provides a candidate Opportunistic Grid Computing platform design and implementation through the use of MAS. Experiments conducted validated the design and implementation of the compute and storage services. From results, support for processing user applications; resource identification and allocation; and rule based reasoning validated the MA compute component. A MAS based file-system that implements chunking optimizations was considered to be optimum based on evaluations. The findings from the undertaken experiments also validated the functional adequacy of the implementation, and show the suitability of MAS for provisioning of robust, autonomous, and intelligent platforms. The context of this research, ICT4D, provides a solution to optimizing and increasing the utilization of computing resources that are usually idle in these contexts.
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Shi, Benyun. "A concurrent negotiation mechanism for grid resource co-allocation." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/937.
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Ng, Ka Fung. "Designing and implementing relaxed-criteria G-negotiation agents." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/938.
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Chen, Jinjun. "Towards effective and efficient temporal verification in grid workflow systems." Australasian Digital Thesis Program, 2007. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20070424.112326/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D) - Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Centre for Information Technology Research, 2007.<br>A thesis to CITR - Centre for Information Technology Research, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 2007. Typescript. Bibliography p. 145-160.
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Gandhi, Bhavin B. "On the coverage of grid information dissemination protocols." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
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Erdil, Değer Cenk. "Adaptive dissemination protocols for hybrid grid resource scheduling." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Kalyanasundaram, Anand Kumar. "Service based marketplace for applications." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2003. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11072003-110358.
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Stokes-Rees, Ian. "A REST model for high throughput scheduling in computational grids." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442954.
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Current grid computing architectures have been based on cluster management and batch queuing systems, extended to a distributed, federated domain. These have shown shortcomings in terms of scalability, stability, and modularity. To address these problems, this dissertation applies architectural styles from the Internet and Web to the domain of generic computational grids. Using the REST style, a flexible model for grid resource interaction is developed which removes the need for any centralised services or specific protocols, thereby allowing a range of implementations and layering of further functionality. The context for resource interaction is a generalisation and formalisation of the Condor ClassAd match-making mechanism. This set theoretic model is described in depth, including the advantages and features which it realises. This RESTful style is also motivated by operational experience with existing grid infrastructures, and the design, operation, and performance of a proto-RESTful grid middleware package named DIRAC. This package was designed to provide for the LHCb particle physics experiment’s “off-line” computational infrastructure, and was first exercised during a 6 month data challenge which utilised over 670 years of CPU time and produced 98 TB of data through 300,000 tasks executed at computing centres around the world. The design of DIRAC and performance measures from the data challenge are reported. The main contribution of this work is the development of a REST model for grid resource interaction. In particular, it allows resource templating for scheduling queues which provide a novel distributed and scalable approach to resource scheduling on the grid.
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Afgan, Enis. "Utility driven grid scheduling framework." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009p/afgan.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 1, 2009). Additional advisors: Brandon Eames, Elliot Lefkowitz, Anthony Skjellum, Alan Sprague. Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-245).
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Amin, Kaizar Abdul Husain. "An Integrated Architecture for Ad Hoc Grids." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5300/.
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Extensive research has been conducted by the grid community to enable large-scale collaborations in pre-configured environments. grid collaborations can vary in scale and motivation resulting in a coarse classification of grids: national grid, project grid, enterprise grid, and volunteer grid. Despite the differences in scope and scale, all the traditional grids in practice share some common assumptions. They support mutually collaborative communities, adopt a centralized control for membership, and assume a well-defined non-changing collaboration. To support grid applications that do not confirm to these assumptions, we propose the concept of ad hoc grids. In the context of this research, we propose a novel architecture for ad hoc grids that integrates a suite of component frameworks. Specifically, our architecture combines the community management framework, security framework, abstraction framework, quality of service framework, and reputation framework. The overarching objective of our integrated architecture is to support a variety of grid applications in a self-controlled fashion with the help of a self-organizing ad hoc community. We introduce mechanisms in our architecture that successfully isolates malicious elements from the community, inherently improving the quality of grid services and extracting deterministic quality assurances from the underlying infrastructure. We also emphasize on the technology-independence of our architecture, thereby offering the requisite platform for technology interoperability. The feasibility of the proposed architecture is verified with a high-quality ad hoc grid implementation. Additionally, we have analyzed the performance and behavior of ad hoc grids with respect to several control parameters.
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Paspuleti, Swetha Yılmaz Levent. "Agent-mediated brokering and matchmaking for simulation model reuse on the semantic grid." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Thesis/PASPULETI_SWETHA_36.pdf.
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Junkert, Levi Daniel. "The grid overlay system model." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/junkert/JunkertL0509.pdf.
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The grid overlay system model is a new technique for forming a grid computing model for research computing. In this method we construct a grid that is dynamically allocated from a set of resources in a unique and progressive manner. This new system model allows for construction of virtual environments for execution of applications on many diverse shared resources. The system can dynamically scale to create a range of resources from a single machine to a virtual cluster of machines. This model provides a virtual container that can run legacy and customized software in an emulated environment or directly on the host's hardware through virtualization. Using this model on current consumer hardware allows for a unique blend of software containment with dynamic resource allocation. Our model, in combination with commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware and software, is able to create a large grid system with multiple combinations of hardware and software environments. In our model we propose a unique set of abstraction layers for systems. The combination of our model with current consumer hardware and software provides a unique design principle for addressing grid implementation, hardware reusability, operating system deployment and implementation, virtualization in the grid, and user control techniques. This provides a robust and simple framework that allows for the construction of computational research solutions in which performance can be traded for flexibility, and vice versa. Our model can be applied to computational research grids, service oriented grids, and even scales to collections of mobile or embedded system grids.
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Yang, Weishuai. "Scalable and effective clustering, scheduling and monitoring of self-organizing grids." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Coetzee, Serena Martha. "An analysis of a data grid approach for spatial data infrastructures." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09272009-152926/.
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Wang, Tianqi. "An architecture to support scalable distributed virtual environment systems on grid." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31473374.
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Abraham, G. T. "Group-based parallel multi-scheduling methods for grid computing." Thesis, Coventry University, 2016. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/9e286ae2-da74-42c9-978b-65d5eb3e3857/1.
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With the advent in multicore computers, the scheduling of Grid jobs can be made more effective if scaled to fully utilize the underlying hardware and parallelized to benefit from the exploitation of multicores. The fact that sequential algorithms do not scale with multicore systems nor benefit from parallelism remains a major challenge to scheduling in the Grid. As multicore systems become ever more pervasive in our computing lives, over reliance on such systems for passive parallelism does not offer the best option in harnessing the benefits of their multiprocessors for Grid scheduling. An explicit means of exploiting parallelism for Grid scheduling is required. The Group-based Parallel Multi-scheduler for Grid introduced in this work is aimed at effectively exploiting the benefits of multicore systems for Grid job scheduling by splitting jobs and machines into paired groups and independently multi-scheduling jobs in parallel from the groups. The Priority method splits jobs into four priority groups based on job attributes and uses two methods (SimTog and EvenDist) methods to group machines. Then the scheduling is carried out using the MinMin algorithm within the discrete group pairs. The Priority method was implemented and compared with the MinMin scheduling algorithm without grouping (named ordinary MinMin in this research). The analysis of results compared against the ordinary MinMin shows substantial improvement in speedup and gains in scheduling efficiency. In addition, the Execution Time Balanced (ETB) and Execution Time Sorted then Balanced (ETSB) methods were also implemented to group jobs in order to improve on some deficiencies found with the Priority method. The two methods used the same machine grouping methods as used with the Priority method, but were able to vary the number of groups and equally exploited different means of grouping jobs to ensure equitability of jobs in groups. The MinMin Grid scheduling algorithm was then executed independently within the discrete group pairs. Results and analysis shows that the ETB and ETSB methods gain still further improvement over MinMin compared to the Priority method. The conclusion is reached that grouping jobs and machines before scheduling improves the scheduling efficiency significantly.
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Zhou, Dayi. "Scheduling for fast turnaround in peer-based desktop grid systems /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1188887261&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-144). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Paladugula, Jithendar. "Parallelization of light scattering spectroscopy and its integration with computational grid environments." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0005280.
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Al, Bodour R. "A flexible model supporting QoS and reallocation for grid applications." Thesis, Coventry University, 2011. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/208265d9-ee5d-4c88-a955-466c9fc3dfa3/1.
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The rise of business-oriented and commercial applications for Grid computing environments has recently gathered pace. Grid computing traditionally has been linked with scientific environments, where heterogeneous resources provided by Grid systems and infrastructures were employed for carrying out computationally-intensive and data-intensive scientific experiments or applications that may have not been possible before. The natural progression is that business-oriented applications will look to build on this success and utilise the large number of heterogeneous Grid resources including computational resources such as CPUs and memory and storage resources such as disk space, potentially available. The success of introducing these applications into the mainstream is directly related to whether service providers can deliver a level of Quality of Service (QoS) to a consumer and the ability of the consumer to request high-level QoS such as the numbers of CPUs required or the RAM required. QoS refers to the guidelines and requirements requested by a user/consumer from the service providers and resources. The communication and agreement establishment processes between user and provider must be defined clearly to accommodate a new type of user where knowledge of the underlying infrastructure cannot be assumed. QoS parameters have generally been defined at the Grid resource level using low level definitions. This tailors to specific applications and models related to scientific domains where brokering, scheduling and QoS delivery is designed for specific applications within specific domains. This thesis presents a flexible model for high-level QoS requests. Business Grid Quality of Service (BGQoS) is introduced for business-oriented and commercial Grid applications which may wish to make use of the resources made available by Grid system environments. BGQoS allows GRCs (Grid Resource Consumers) to specify varying types of high-level QoS requirements which are delivered via querying up-to-date resource information, matchmaking and monitoring operations. Moreover, we present dynamically calculated metrics for measuring QoS such as reliability, increasing the accuracy of meeting the GRC’s requirements. On the other hand GRPs (Grid Resource Provider) are also capable of advertising their resources, their capabilities, their usage policies and availability both locally and globally. This leads to a flexible model that could be carried across domains without altering the core operations and which could easily be expanded in order to accommodate different types of GRC, resources and applications.
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Wang, Tianqi, and 王天琦. "An architecture to support scalable distributed virtual environment systems on grid." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31473374.
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Ulmer, Craig D. "Extensible message layers for resource-rich cluster computers." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13306.
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Chen, Jinjun, and n/a. "Towards effective and efficient temporal verification in grid workflow systems." Swinburne University of Technology, 2007. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20070424.112326.
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In grid architecture, a grid workflow system is a type of high-level grid middleware
which aims to support large-scale sophisticated scientific or business processes in a
variety of complex e-science or e-business applications such as climate modelling,
disaster recovery, medical surgery, high energy physics, international stock market
modelling and so on. Such sophisticated processes often contain hundreds of
thousands of computation or data intensive activities and take a long time to
complete. In reality, they are normally time constrained. Correspondingly, temporal
constraints are enforced when they are modelled or redesigned as grid workflow
specifications at build-time. The main types of temporal constraints include upper
bound, lower bound and fixed-time. Then, temporal verification would be conducted
so that we can identify any temporal violations and handle them in time.
Conventional temporal verification research and practice have presented some
basic concepts and approaches. However, they have not paid sufficient attention to
overall temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency. In the context of grid
economy, any resources for executing grid workflows must be paid. Therefore, more
resources should be mainly used for execution of grid workflow itself rather than for
temporal verification. Poor temporal verification effectiveness or efficiency would
cause more resources diverted to temporal verification. Hence, temporal verification
effectiveness and efficiency become a prominent issue and deserve an in-depth
investigation.
This thesis systematically investigates the limitations of conventional temporal
verification in terms of temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency. The
detailed analysis of temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency is conducted
for each step of a temporal verification cycle. There are four steps in total: Step 1 -
defining temporal consistency; Step 2 - assigning temporal constraints; Step 3 -
selecting appropriate checkpoints; and Step 4 - verifying temporal constraints.
Based on the investigation and analysis, we propose some new concepts and develop
a set of innovative methods and algorithms towards more effective and efficient
temporal verification. Comparisons, quantitative evaluations and/or mathematical
proofs are also presented at each step of the temporal verification cycle. These
demonstrate that our new concepts, innovative methods and algorithms can
significantly improve overall temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency.
Specifically, in Step 1, we analyse the limitations of two temporal consistency
states which are defined by conventional verification work. After, we propose four
new states towards better temporal verification effectiveness. In Step 2, we analyse
the necessity of a number of temporal constraints in terms of temporal verification
effectiveness. Then we design a novel algorithm for assigning a series of finegrained
temporal constraints within a few user-set coarse-grained ones. In Step 3, we
discuss the problem of existing representative checkpoint selection strategies in
terms of temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency. The problem is that they
often ignore some necessary checkpoints and/or select some unnecessary ones. To
solve this problem, we develop an innovative strategy and corresponding algorithms
which only select sufficient and necessary checkpoints. In Step 4, we investigate a
phenomenon which is ignored by existing temporal verification work, i.e. temporal
dependency. Temporal dependency means temporal constraints are often dependent
on each other in terms of their verification. We analyse its impact on overall
temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency. Based on this, we develop some
novel temporal verification algorithms which can significantly improve overall
temporal verification effectiveness and efficiency. Finally, we present an extension
to our research about handling temporal verification results since these verification
results are based on our four new temporal consistency states.
The major contributions of this research are that we have provided a set of new
concepts, innovative methods and algorithms for temporal verification in grid
workflow systems. With these, we can significantly improve overall temporal
verification effectiveness and efficiency. This would eventually improve the overall
performance and usability of grid workflow systems because temporal verification
can be viewed as a service or function of grid workflow systems. Consequently, by
deploying the new concepts, innovative methods and algorithms, grid workflow
systems would be able to better support large-scale sophisticated scientific and
business processes in complex e-science and e-business applications in the context
of grid economy.
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Yi, Shi. "Virtual organization based distributed environmental spatial decision support systems applications in watershed management /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Tewelde, Yigzaw Samuel. "A generic campus grid computing framework for tertiary institutions : the case of the University of Stellenbosch." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50248.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Prior to the invention of Personal Computers the scope of research activities was limited by
the pre-existing capabilities of problem solving mechanisms. However, with the advent of
PCs and inter-networking thereof, the new tools (hardware and software) enabled the
scientific community to tackle more complex research challenges and this led to a better
understanding of our environment. The development of the Internet also enabled research
communities to communicate and share information in real time.
However, even the Internet has limitations of its own when it comes to the need of sharing not
only information but also massive storage, processing power, huge databases and
applications, expensive and delicate scientific instruments, knowledge and expertise. This led
to the need for a networking system that includes these above-mentioned services, using the
Internet infrastructure, semantic web technologies and pervasive computing devices, which is
so called Grid Computing. This research study deals with a Generic Campus Grid Computing
framework, which mobilizes the available idle/extra computing resources residing in the
faculty-computing centres for use by the e-community on CPU-intensive or Data-intensive
jobs. This unused computing capacity could be utilized for Grid computing services; hence,
the already available resources could be more efficiently exploited. Besides, this could be a
huge saving when compared to the cost of acquiring supercomputers by these institutions.
Therefore, this research study intends to establish a simple and functional Generic Campus
Grid Computing Framework at this stage, with the consent that subsequent research studies
could deal with further assessment in a more detailed perspective and practical
implementation thereof.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Voor die uitvinding van die Persoonlike Rekenaar is die omvang van navorsingsaktiwiteite
beperk deur die voorafbestaande vermoëns van probleemoplossingsmeganismes. Met die
verskyning van PR's en die daaropvolgende internetwerking daarvan, het die nuwe
gereedskap (hardeware en sagteware) die wetenskaplike gemeenskap in staat gestel om meer
komplekse navorsingsuitdagings aan te pak. Dit het gelei tot groter begrip van ons omgewing.
Die onwikkeling van die Internet het navorsingsgemeenskappe ook in staat gestel om in reële
tyd te kommunikeer en inligting te deel.
Nietemin, selfs die Internet het gebreke wanneer dit kom by die behoefte om nie slegs
inligting te deel nie, maar ook massiewe stoorruimte, verwerkingskrag, baie groot databasisse
en toepassings, duur en delikate wetenskaplike toerusting, kennis en kundigheid. Dit het gelei
tot die behoefte aan 'n netwerksisteem wat bogenoemde dienste insluit, deur gebruik te maak
van Internet-infrastruktuur, semantiese web tegnologieë, en alomteenwoordige rekenaartoestelle.
Hierdie sisteem staan bekend as "Grid Computing" of te wel Rooster Komputasie.
Hierdie navorsingstudie handel oor 'n Generiese Kampus Rooster Komputasie Raamwerk wat
die ongebruikte, ekstra komputasiebronne, wat beskikbaar is in fakulteite se rekenaargebruikersareas,
mobiliseer vir gebruik deur die e-gemeenskap op SVE-intensiewe of Dataintensiewe
toepassings. Hierdie ongebruikte komputasie kapasiteit kan aangewend word vir
Rooster komputasie dienste; gevolglik kan die beskikbare bronne dan meer effektief benut
word. Verder kan dit lei tot groot besparings wanneer dit vergelyk word met die koste om
superrekenaars aan te koop deur die betrokke instansies. Dus, op hierdie stadium stel hierdie
navorsingstudie dit ten doel om 'n eenvoudige en funksionele Generiese Kampus Rooster
Komputasie Raamwerk te skep met dien verstande dat daaropvolgende studies sou kon fokus
op verdere assessering met 'n meer gedetaileerde perspektief en met praktiese implementasie.
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Buyya, Rajkumar 1970. "Economic-based distributed resource management and scheduling for grid computing." Monash University, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8760.
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Sanjeepan, Vivekananthan. "A service-oriented, scalable, secure framework for Grid-enabling legacy scientific applications." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013276.
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Ekstrom, Nathan Hyrum. "Increasing DOGMA Scaling Through Clustering." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2359.pdf.
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Hoffman, John Jared. "PPerfGrid: A Grid Services-Based Tool for the Exchange of Heterogeneous Parallel Performance Data." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2664.
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This thesis details the approach taken in developing PPerfGrid. Section 2 discusses other research related to this project. Section 3 provides general background on the technologies utilized in PPerfGrid, focusing on the components that make up the Grid services architecture. Section 4 provides a description of the architecture of PPerfGrid. Section 5 details the implementation of PPerfGrid. Section 6 presents tests designed to measure the overhead and scalability of the PPerfGrid application. Section 7 suggests future work, and Section 8 concludes the thesis.
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Killian, Rudi. "Dynamic superscalar grid for technical debt reduction." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2726.
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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.<br>Organizations and the private individual, look to technology advancements to increase their ability to make informed decisions. The motivation for technology adoption by entities sprouting from an innate need for value generation. The technology currently heralded as the future platform to facilitate value addition, is popularly termed cloud computing. The move to cloud computing however, may conceivably increase the obsolescence cycle for currently retained Information Technology (IT) assets. The term obsolescence, applied as the inability to repurpose or scale an information system resource for needed functionality. The incapacity to reconfigure, grow or shrink an IT asset, be it hardware or software is a well-known narrative of technical debt. The notion of emergent technical debt realities is professed to be all but inevitable when informed by Moore’s Law, as technology must inexorably advance. Of more imminent concern however are that major accelerating factors of technical debt are deemed as non-holistic conceptualization and design conventions. Should management of IT assets fail to address technical debt continually, the technology platform would predictably require replacement. The unrealized value, functional and fiscal loss, together with the resultant e-waste generated by technical debt is meaningfully unattractive. Historically, the cloud milieu had evolved from the grid and clustering paradigms which allowed for information sourcing across multiple and often dispersed computing platforms. The parallel operations in distributed computing environments are inherently value adding, as enhanced effective use of resources and efficiency in data handling may be achieved. The predominant information processing solutions that implement parallel operations in distributed environments are abstracted constructs, styled as High Performance Computing (HPC) or High Throughput Computing (HTC). Regardless of the underlying distributed environment, the archetypes of HPC and HTC differ radically in standard implementation. The foremost contrasting factors of parallelism granularity, failover and locality in data handling have recently been the subject of greater academic discourse towards possible fusion of the two technologies. In this research paper, we uncover probable platforms of future technical debt and subsequently recommend redeployment alternatives. The suggested alternatives take the form of scalable grids, which should provide alignment with the contemporary nature of individual information processing needs. The potential of grids, as efficient and effective information sourcing solutions across geographically dispersed heterogeneous systems are envisioned to reduce or delay aspects of technical debt. As part of an experimental investigation to test plausibility of concepts, artefacts are designed to generically implement HPC and HTC. The design features exposed by the experimental artefacts, could provide insights towards amalgamation of HPC and HTC.
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Luyt, Leslie. "Automated grid fault detection and repair." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006693.
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With the rise in interest in the field of grid and cloud computing, it is becoming increasingly necessary for the grid to be easily maintainable. This maintenance of the grid and grid services can be made easier by using an automated system to monitor and repair the grid as necessary. We propose a novel system to perform automated monitoring and repair of grid systems. To the best of our knowledge, no such systems exist. The results show that certain faults can be easily detected and repaired.<br>TeX<br>Adobe Acrobat 9.51 Paper Capture Plug-in
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Bhowmik, Rajdeep. "Optimizing XML-based grid services on multi-core processors using an emulation framework." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Li, Xiao-Yu. "Evolving a secure grid-enabled, distributed data warehouse : a standards-based perspective." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/544.
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As digital data-collection has increased in scale and number, it becomes an important type of resource serving a wide community of researchers. Cross-institutional data-sharing and collaboration introduce a suitable approach to facilitate those research institutions that are suffering the lack of data and related IT infrastructures. Grid computing has become a widely adopted approach to enable cross-institutional resource-sharing and collaboration. It integrates a distributed and heterogeneous collection of locally managed users and resources. This project proposes a distributed data warehouse system, which uses Grid technology to enable data-access and integration, and collaborative operations across multi-distributed institutions in the context of HV/AIDS research. This study is based on wider research into OGSA-based Grid services architecture, comprising a data-analysis system which utilizes a data warehouse, data marts, and near-line operational database that are hosted by distributed institutions. Within this framework, specific patterns for collaboration, interoperability, resource virtualization and security are included. The heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the Grid environment introduces a number of security challenges. This study also concerns a set of particular security aspects, including PKI-based authentication, single sign-on, dynamic delegation, and attribute-based authorization. These mechanisms, as supported by the Globus Toolkit’s Grid Security Infrastructure, are used to enable interoperability and establish trust relationship between various security mechanisms and policies within different institutions; manage credentials; and ensure secure interactions.
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Póvoa, Marcelo Galvão 1990. "Escalonamento de tarefas com localidade de dados em grids." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275544.
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Previous issue date: 2015<br>Resumo: Sistemas computacionais conhecidos como Data Grids fornecem uma infraestrutura computacional distribuída para processamento e armazenamento de dados, com várias aplicações envolvendo computação em larga escala. Devido ao uso de um grande volume de dados, é necessário não apenas um escalonamento eficiente de tarefas, mas também uma distribuição inteligente de réplicas dos dados para se atingir o melhor desempenho. Esses dois problemas já foram extensivamente estudados de forma independente na literatura, mas estamos concentrados em um formulação integrada em um problema estático, de forma a otimizar uma única função objetivo. Primeiramente, mostramos que este problema não pode admitir um algoritmo aproximado. Porém, considerando uma versão restrita do problema, apresentamos um algoritmo aproximado original com fator de aproximação constante. Também fazemos um estudo de algoritmos aproximados para problemas relacionados disponíveis na literatura. Sob um aspecto mais prático, introduzimos duas heurísticas originais para o problema. A primeira é baseada no agrupamento de máquinas próximas em clusters, enquanto a segunda procura identificar grupos de dados frequentemente acessados em conjunto. Comparamos esses algoritmos com duas abordagens adaptadas da literatura, através de simulações computacionais em um grande conjunto de instâncias baseadas em grids reais. Mostramos que nossa primeira heurística costuma obter melhores soluções que as outras com boa eficiência de tempo, enquanto a segunda heurística é ainda mais rápida e ainda obtém soluções competitivas<br>Abstract: Computational systems known as Data Grids provide a flexible, distributed computing infrastructure for processing and storage and has many applications in large-scale computing. Due to the use of great amounts of data, not only efficient task scheduling but also thorough file replication are crucial for achieving the best performance. Both these problems have already been studied independently in the literature, but we are interested in a combined formulation as a static problem, in order to minimize a single objective function. First, we show that this problem does not admit an approximation algorithm. However, considering a restricted version of the problem, we provide a constant ratio approximation algorithm. We also conduct a study of approximation algorithms for related problems avaliable in the literature. On a more practical side, we introduce two novel heuristics for the problem. The first is based on grouping neighbor nodes into clusters, while the second tries to identify groups of files frequently accessed together. We compare these algorithms with two adapted approaches from other works in the literature by doing computational simulations using an extensive set of instances based on real grids. We show that our first heuristic often obtains the best solutions with good time efficiency, while the second is even faster and still provides competitive solutions<br>Mestrado<br>Ciência da Computação<br>Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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Baines, Darwin Tarry. "Accelerated Ray Traced Animations Exploiting Temporal Coherence." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd915.baines.
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Tan, Koon Leai Larry. "An integrated methodology for creating composed Web/grid services." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2515.
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This thesis presents an approach to design, specify, validate, verify, implement, and evaluate composed web/grid services. Web and grid services can be composed to create new services with complex behaviours. The BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) standard was created to enable the orchestration of web services, but there have also been investigation of its use for grid services. BPEL specifies the implementation of service composition but has no formal semantics; implementations are in practice checked by testing. Formal methods are used in general to define an abstract model of system behaviour that allows simulation and reasoning about properties. The approach can detect and reduce potentially costly errors at design time. CRESS (Communication Representation Employing Systematic Specification) is a domainindependent, graphical, abstract notation, and integrated toolset for developing composite web service. The original version of CRESS had automated support for formal specification in LOTOS (Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification), executing formal validation with MUSTARD (Multiple-Use Scenario Testing and Refusal Description), and implementing in BPEL4WS as the early version of BPEL standard. This thesis work has extended CRESS and its integrated tools to design, specify, validate, verify, implement, and evaluate composed web/grid services. The work has extended the CRESS notation to support a wider range of service compositions, and has applied it to grid services as a new domain. The thesis presents two new tools, CLOVE (CRESS Language-Oriented Verification Environment) and MINT (MUSTARD Interpreter), to respectively support formal verification and implementation testing. New work has also extended CRESS to automate implementation of composed services using the more recent BPEL standard WS-BPEL 2.0.
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Balasubramanian, Ravishankar. "Adjoint-based error estimation and grid adaptation for functional outputs from CFD simulations." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2005. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/ETD-browse/browse.
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Howe, Bill. "Gridfields: Model-Driven Data Transformation in the Physical Sciences." PDXScholar, 2006. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2676.
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Scientists' ability to generate and store simulation results is outpacing their ability to analyze them via ad hoc programs. We observe that these programs exhibit an algebraic structure that can be used to facilitate reasoning and improve performance. In this dissertation, we present a formal data model that exposes this algebraic structure, then implement the model, evaluate it, and use it to express, optimize, and reason about data transformations in a variety of scientific domains.
Simulation results are defined over a logical grid structure that allows a continuous domain to be represented discretely in the computer. Existing approaches for manipulating these gridded datasets are incomplete. The performance of SQL queries that manipulate large numeric datasets is not competitive with that of specialized tools, and the up-front effort required to deploy a relational database makes them unpopular for dynamic scientific applications. Tools for processing multidimensional arrays can only capture regular, rectilinear grids. Visualization libraries accommodate arbitrary grids, but no algebra has been developed to simplify their use and afford optimization. Further, these libraries are data dependent—physical changes to data characteristics break user programs.
We adopt the grid as a first-class citizen, separating topology from geometry and separating structure from data. Our model is agnostic with respect to dimension, uniformly capturing, for example, particle trajectories (1-D), sea-surface temperatures (2-D), and blood flow in the heart (3-D). Equipped with data, a grid becomes a gridfield. We provide operators for constructing, transforming, and aggregating gridfields that admit algebraic laws useful for optimization. We implement the model by analyzing several candidate data structures and incorporating their best features. We then show how to deploy gridfields in practice by injecting the model as middleware between heterogeneous, ad hoc file formats and a popular visualization library.
In this dissertation, we define, develop, implement, evaluate and deploy a model of gridded datasets that accommodates a variety of complex grid structures and a variety of complex data products. We evaluate the applicability and performance of the model using datasets from oceanography, seismology, and medicine and conclude that our model-driven approach offers significant advantages over the status quo.
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Park, Alfred John. "Master/worker parallel discrete event simulation." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28170.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.<br>Committee Chair: Fujimoto, Richard; Committee Member: Bader, David; Committee Member: Perumalla, Kalyan; Committee Member: Riley, George; Committee Member: Vuduc, Richard.
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Sandholm, Thomas. "Managing Service Levels in Grid Computing Systems : Quota Policy and Computational Market Approaches." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, NADA, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4346.
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<p>We study techniques to enforce and provision differentiated service levels in <i>Computational Grid</i> systems. The Grid offers simplified provisioning of peak-capacity for applications with computational requirements beyond local machines and clusters, by sharing resources across organizational boundaries. Current systems have focussed on access control, i.e., managing who is allowed to run applications on remote sites. Very little work has been done on providing differentiated service levels for those applications that are admitted. This leads to a number of problems when scheduling jobs in a fair and efficient way. For example, users with a large number of long-running jobs could starve out others, both intentionally and non-intentionally. We investigate the requirements of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications that run in academic Grid systems, and propose two models of service-level management. Our first model is based on global real-time quota enforcement, where projects are granted resource quota, such as CPU hours, across the Grid by a centralized allocation authority. We implement the SweGrid Accounting System to enforce quota allocated by the Swedish National Allocations Committee in the SweGrid production Grid, which connects six Swedish HPC centers. A flexible authorization policy framework allows provisioning and enforcement of two different service levels across the SweGrid clusters; high-priority and low-priority jobs. As a solution to more fine-grained control over service levels we propose and implement a <i>Grid</i> <i>Market </i>system, using a market-based resource allocator called Tycoon. The conclusion of our research is that although the Grid accounting solution offers better service level enforcement support than state-of-the-art production Grid systems, it turned out to be complex to set the resource price and other policies manually, while ensuring fairness and efficiency of the system. Our Grid Market on the other hand sets the price according to the dynamic demand, and it is further incentive compatible, in that the overall system state remains healthy even in the presence of strategic users.</p>
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Zhai, Yuzheng. "Improving scalability and accuracy of text mining in grid environment." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5927.
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The advance in technologies such as massive storage devices and high speed internet has led to an enormous increase in the volume of available documents in electronic form. These documents represent information in a complex and rich manner that cannot be analysed using conventional statistical data mining methods. Consequently, text mining is developed as a growing new technology for discovering knowledge from textual data and managing textual information. Processing and analysing textual information can potentially obtain valuable and important information, yet these tasks also requires enormous amount of computational resources due to the sheer size of the data available. Therefore, it is important to enhance the existing methodologies to achieve better scalability, efficiency and accuracy.<br>The emerging Grid technology shows promising results in solving the problem of scalability by splitting the works from text clustering algorithms into a number of jobs, each to be executed separately and simultaneously on different computing resources. That allows for a substantial decrease in the processing time and maintaining the similar level of quality at the same time.<br>To improve the quality of the text clustering results, a new document encoding method is introduced that takes into consideration of the semantic similarities of the words. In this way, documents that are similar in content will be more likely to be group together.<br>One of the ultimate goals of text mining is to help us to gain insights to the problem and to assist in the decision making process together with other source of information. Hence we tested the effectiveness of incorporating text mining method in the context of stock market prediction. This is achieved by integrating the outcomes obtained from text mining with the ones from data mining, which results in a more accurate forecast than using any single method.
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Tang, Jia. "An agent-based peer-to-peer grid computing architecture." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060508.151716/index.html.
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Altowaijri, Saleh. "Grid and cloud computing : technologies, applications, market sectors, and workloads." Thesis, Swansea University, 2013. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42944.
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Developments in electronics, computing and communication technologies have transformed IT systems from desktop and tightly coupled mainframe computers of the past to modern day highly complex distributed systems. These ICT systems interact with humans at a much advanced level than what was envisaged during the early years of computer development. The ICT systems of today have gone through various phases of developments by absorbing intermediate and modern day concepts such as networked computing, utility, on demand and autonomic computing, virtualisation and so on. We now live in a ubiquitous computing and digital economy era where computing systems have penetrated into the human lives to a degree where these systems are becoming invisible. The price of these developments is in the increased costs, higher risks and higher complexity. There is a compelling need to study these emerging systems, their applications, and the emerging market sectors that they are penetrating into. Motivated by the challenges and opportunities offered by the modern day ICT technologies, we aim in this thesis to explore the major technological developments that have happened in the ICT systems during this century with a focus on developing techniques to manage applied ICT systems in digital economy. In the process, we wish to also touch on the evolution of ICT systems and discuss these in context of the state of the art technologies and applications. We have identified the two most transformative technologies of this century, grid computing and cloud computing, and two application areas, intelligent healthcare and transportation systems. The contribution of this thesis is multidisciplinary in four broad areas. Firstly, a workload model of a grid-based ICT system in the healthcare sector is proposed and analysed using multiple healthcare organisations and applications. Secondly, an innovative intelligent system for the management of disasters in urban environments using cloud computing is proposed and analysed. Thirdly, cloud computing market sectors, applications, and workload are analysed using over 200 real life case studies. Fourthly, a detailed background and literature review is provided on grid computing and cloud computing. Finally, directions for future work are given. The work contributes in multidisciplinary fields involving healthcare, transportation, mobile computing, vehicular networking, grid, cloud, and distributed computing. The discussions presented in this thesis on the historical developments, technology and architectural details of grid computing have served to understand as to how and why grid computing was seen in the past as the global infrastructure of the future. These discussions on grid computing also provided the basis that we subsequently used to explain the background, motivations, technological details, and ongoing developments in cloud computing. The introductory chapters on grid and cloud computing, collectively, have provided an insight into the evolution of ICT systems over the last 50+ years - from mainframes to microcomputers, internet, distributed computing, cluster computing, and computing as a utility and service. The existing and proposed applications of grid and cloud computing in healthcare and transport were used to further elaborate the two technologies and the ongoing ICT developments in the digital economy. The workload models and analyses of grid and cloud computing systems can be used by the practitioners for the design and resource management of ICT systems.
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Batista, Daniel Macêdo. "Engenharia de trafego multi-camada para grades." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/276243.
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Orientadores: Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, Fabrizio Granelli<br>Dissertação (mestrado ) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T18:06:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: Grades são ambientes computacionais caracterizados pela heterogeneidade de recursos e dinamismo. Por serem ambientes dinâmicos, as grades precisam de processos que otimizem a execução das aplicações de forma também dinâmica. Tais processos devem detectar mudanças no estado da grade e tomar medidas para manter o tempo de execução das aplicações o menor possível. Existem diversas propostas de otimização dinâmica de aplicações em grades que visam atender essa necessidade através da migração de tarefas. Esta dissertação propõe uma metodologia que considera variações na disponibilidade dos hosts bem como no estado da rede. A metodologia proposta é baseada nos princípios gerais da engenharia de tráfego e atua em várias camadas da arquitetura Internet. Ela tem como objetivo minimizar o tempo de execução das aplicações e visa ser simples e independente, tanto da aplicação, quanto da grade. Os ganhos obtidos na execução de aplicações em grades com a utilização da proposta, versus a execução sem a mesma, são avaliados através de simulação com exemplos implementados usando o simulador de redes NS-2. Esta dissertação propõe também uma família de escalonadores baseados em programação inteira e em programação mista para o escalonamento de tarefas em grades que modelam o estado dos hosts bem como o da rede, sendo este o diferencial em relação às demais propostas na literatura<br>Abstract: Grids are dynamic and heterogeneous computing environments which require systematic methods for minimizing the execution time of applications. Such methods needs to detect changes on resource availability so that the execution time of applications can be kept low. The method introduced in this dissertation considers changes on the availability of hosts as well as on the availability of network resources. This method ressembles the Traffic Engineering for the Internet. It was validated via simulation using the NS-2 simulator. This dissertation also introduces a set of schedulers based on integer and mix programming which considers both host availability as well as network resources availability, differing from other proposals in the literature<br>Mestrado<br>Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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Batista, Daniel Macêdo. "Escalonadores de tarefas dependentes para grades robustos as incertezas das informações de entrada." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275848.
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Orientador: Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca<br>Tese (doutorado ) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T11:13:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: Para que escalonadores em grades derivem escalonamentos, é necessário que se forneçam as demandas das aplicações e as disponibilidades dos recursos das grades. No entanto, a falta de controle centralizado, o desconhecimento dos usuários e a imprecisão das ferramentas de medição fazem com que as informações fornecidas aos escalonadores difiram dos valores reais que deveriam ser considerados para se obter escalonamentos quase-ótimos. A presente Tese introduz dois escalonadores de tarefas robustos às incertezas das informações providas como entrada ao escalonador. Um dos escalonadores lida com informações imprecisas sobre as demandas das aplicações, enquanto que o outro considera tanto imprecisões das demandas quanto da disponibilidade de recursos. A eficácia e a eficiência dos escalonadores robustos às incertezas são avaliadas através de simulação.Comparam-se os escalonamentos gerados pelos escalonadores robustos com os produzidos por escalonadores sensíveis às informações incertas. A eficácia de estimadores de largura de banda disponível são, também, avaliadas, através de medição, a luz da adoção destes em sistemas de grades, a fim de que se possa utilizar suas estimativas como informação de entrada a escalonadores robustos<br>Abstract: Schedulers need information on the application demands and on the grid resource availability as input to derive efficient schedules for the tasks of a grid application. However, information provided to schedulers differ from the true values due to the lack of central control in a grid and the lack of ownership of resources as well as the precision of estimations provided by measurement tools. This thesis introduces two robust schedulers based on fuzzy optimization. The first scheduler deals with uncertainties on the application demands while the other with uncertainties of both application demands and resource availability. The effectiveness of these schedulers are evaluated via simulation and the schedules produced by them are compared to those of their non-fuzzy counterpart. Moreover, the efficacy of available bandwidth estimators is assessed in order to evaluate their use in grid systems for providing schedulers with useful input information<br>Doutorado<br>Sistemas de Computação, Redes Multimidia<br>Doutor em Ciência da Computação
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Bsoul, Mohammad. "Economic scheduling in Grid computing using Tender models." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/3094.
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Economic scheduling needs to be considered for Grid computing environment, because it gives an incentive for resource providers to supply their resources. Moreover, it enforces efficient use of resources, because the users have to pay for their use. Tendering is a suitable model for Grid scheduling because users start the negotiations for finding suitable resources for executing their jobs. Furthermore, the users specify their job requirements with their requests and therefore the resources reply with bids that are based on the cost of taking on the job and the availability of their processors. In this thesis, a framework for economic Grid scheduling using tendering is proposed. The framework entities such as users, brokers and resources employ tender/contract-net model to negotiate the prices and deadlines. The brokers' role is acting on behalf of users. During the negotiations, the entities aim to maximise their performance which is measured by a number of metrics. In order to evaluate the entities' performance under different scenarios, a Java- based simulator, called MICOSim, supporting event-driven simulation of economic Grid scheduling is presented. MICOSim can perform a simulation of more than one hundred entities faster than real time. It is concluded from the evaluation that users who are interested in increasing the job success rate and paying less for executing their jobs have to consider received prices to select the most appropriate bids, while users who are interested in improving the job average satisfaction rate have to consider either received completion time or both price and completion time to select the most suitable bids when the submission of jobs is static. The best broker strategy is the one that doesn't take into account meeting the job deadlines in the bids it sends to job owners. Finally, the resource strategy that considers the price to determine if to reply to a request or not is superior to other resource strategies. The only exception is employing this strategy with price that is too low. However, there is a tiny difference between the performances of different user strategies in dynamic submission. It is also concluded from the evaluation that broker strategies have the best performance when the revenue they target from the users is reasonable. Thus, the broker's aim has to be receiving reasonable revenue (neither too low nor too high) from acting on behalf of users. It is observed from the results that the strategy performance is influenced by the behaviour of other entities such as the submission time of user jobs. Finally, it is observed that the characteristics of entities have an effect on the performance of strategies. For example, the two user strategies that consider the received completion time and both price and completion time to determine if to accept a broker bid have similar performance, because of the existence of resources with various prices from cheap to expensive and existence of resources which don't care about the price paid for the execution. So, the price threshold doesn't have a large effect on the performance.
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Foulkes, Philip James. "A grid based approach for the control and recall of the properties of IEEE 1394 audio devices." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004836.
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The control of modern audio studios is complex. Audio mixing desks have grown to the point where they contain thousands of parameters. The control surfaces of these devices do not reflect the routing and signal processing capabilities that the devices are capable of. Software audio mixing desk editors have been developed that allow for the remote control of these devices, but their graphical user interfaces retain the complexities of the audio mixing desk that they represent. In this thesis, we propose a grid approach to audio mixing. The developed grid audio mixing desk editor represents an audio mixing desk as a series of graphical routing matrices. These routing matrices expose the various signal processing points and signal flows that exist within an audio mixing desk. The routing matrices allow for audio signals to be routed within the device, and allow for the device’s parameters to be adjusted by selecting the appropriate signal processing points. With the use of the programming interfaces that are defined as part of the Studio Connections – Total Recall SDK, the audio mixing desk editor was integrated with compatible DAW applications to provide persistence of audio mixing desk parameter states. Many audio studios currently use digital networks to connect audio devices together. Audio and control signals are patched between devices through the use of software patchbays that run on computers. We propose a double grid-based FireWire patchbay aimed to simplify the patching of signals between audio devices on a FireWire network. The FireWire patchbay was implemented in such a way such that it can host software device editors that are Studio Connections compatible. This has allowed software device editors to be associated with the devices that are represented on the FireWire patchbay, thus allowing for studio wide control from a single application. The double grid-based patchbay was implemented such that it can be hosted by compatible DAW applications. Through this, the double grid-based patchbay application is able to provide the DAW application with the state of the parameters of the devices in a studio, as well as the connections between them. The DAW application may save this state data to its native song files. This state data may be passed back to the double grid-based patchbay when the song file is reloaded at a later stage. This state data may then be used by the patchbay to restore the parameters of the patchbay and its device editors to a previous state. This restored state may then be transferred to the hardware devices being represented by the patchbay.
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Head, Michael Reuben. "Analysis and optimization for processing grid-scale XML datasets." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Enomoto, Cristina. "Uma linguagem para especificação de fluxo de execução em aplicações paralelas." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/261813.
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Orientador: Marco Aurelio Amaral Henriques<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T12:56:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Previous issue date: 2005<br>Resumo: Vários sistemas de grid e computação distribuída existentes só permitem a execução de aplicações com um fluxo de execução de tarefas básico, no qual é feita a distribuição das tarefas executadas em paralelo e depois a coleta de seus resultados. Outros sistemas permitem definir uma relação de dependências entre as tarefas, formando um grafo direcionado acíclico. Porém, mesmo com este modelo de fluxo de execução não é possível executar vários tipos de aplicações que poderiam ser paralelizadas, como, por exemplo, algoritmos genéticos e de cálculo numérico que utilizam algum tipo de processamento iterativo. Nesta dissertação é proposta uma linguagem de especificação para fluxo de execução de aplicações paralelas que permite um controle de fluxo de tarefas mais flexível, viabilizando desvios condicionais e laços com iterações controladas. A linguagem é baseada na notação XML (eXtensible Markup Language), o que lhe confere características importantes tais como flexibilidade e simplicidade. Para avaliar estas e outras características da linguagem proposta, foi feita uma implementação sobre o sistema de processamento paralelo JoiN. Além de viabilizar a criação e execução de novas aplicações paralelas cujos fluxos de tarefas contêm laços e/ou desvios condicionais, a linguagem se mostrou simples de usar e não causou sobrecarga perceptível ao sistema paralelo<br>Abstract: Many distributed and parallel systems allow only a basic task flow, in which the parallel tasks are distributed and their results collected. In some systems the application execution flow gives support to a dependence relationship among tasks, represented by a directed acyclic graph. Even with this model it is not possible to execute in parallel some important applications as, for example, genetic algorithms. Therefore, there is a need for a new specification model with more sophisticated flow controls that allow some kind of iterative processing at the level of task management. The purpose of this work is to present a proposal for a specification language for parallel application execution workflow, which provides new types of control structures and allows the implementation of a broader range of applications. This language is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) notation, which provides characteristics like simplicity and flexibility to the proposed language. To evaluate these and other characteristics of the language, it was implemented on the JoiN parallel processing system. Besides allowing the creation and execution of new parallel applications containing task flows with loops and conditional branches, the proposedlanguage was easy to use and did not cause any significant overhead to the parallel system<br>Mestrado<br>Engenharia de Computação<br>Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica