Energy-aware grid scheduling of independent tasks and highly distributed data
Author
Kołodziej, Joanna
Szmajduch, Magdalena
Maqsood, Tahir
Madani, Sajjad A.
Min-Allah, Nasro
Khan, Samee U.
Release date
2013
Place of publication
Los Alamitos [etc.]
Publisher
IEEE
Published in
FIT 2013 : 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, 16-18 December 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan : proceedings / L. O’Conner
Pages
211-216
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-4799-2293-2
DOI
10.1109/FIT.2013.46
Keywords
energy utilization, green computing, Data Grid, scheduling, Data Center, genetic algorithm
Abstract
Data-aware scheduling in today's large-scale computing systems has become a major complex research issue. This problem becomes even more challenging when data is stored and accessed from many highly distributed servers and energy-efficiency is treated as a main scheduling objective. In this paper we approach the independent batch scheduling in grid environment as a bi-objective minimization problem with makespan and energy consumption as the scheduling criteria. We used the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) model for reducing the cumulative power energy utilized by the system resources for tasks executions. We developed for data transmission a general logical network topology and policy based on the sleep link-based Adaptive Link Rate (ALR) on/off technique. Two developed energy-aware grid schedulers are based on genetic algorithms (GAs) frameworks with elitist and struggle replacement mechanisms and were empirically evaluated for four grid size scenarios in static and dynamic modes. The simulation results show that the proposed schedulers perform to a level that is sufficient to maintain the desired quality levels.
PKT classification
410000 Informatyka
Department
Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
