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Execution System Overview

by Charles Koelbel last modified 2009-09-30 05:28
NOTE: The VGrADS Project completed its work on September 30, 2009. These pages are retained for archival purposes, but are not actively updated.

The core activity amongst all of the execution system team members is to develop, refine, and implement the notion of Virtual Grids (VGs).  This includes the VG abstraction itself, implementation technologies, and underlying statistical resource classification techniques.  To effectively support applications while achieving efficient resource selection and scheduling, VGs must enable applications to express simply their desired resource abstraction and preferences.  To develop these abstractions, we have studied several leading grid application efforts, abstracted their requirements, and evaluated the effectiveness of VG abstractions for each. We then implemented the VG abstractions deemed most useful in the Virtual Grid Execution System (vgES) and tested our evaluations. This abstraction-implementation-evaluation process continues today as we extend the vgES, notably the incorporation of support for time (slotted VGs) and reliability (fault tolerance) in new complex, adaptive workflow applications. We also continue to refine and improve implementation techniques for core vgES tasks, such as finding and binding (discovering and reserving) appropriate resources and monitoring execution status.

More details about VGs can be found on the dedicated Virtual Grid page.

The overall architecture of vgES is given on the vgES Design page.

Other pages listed at left describe activities that directly support the development and evaluation of VGs. In particular, they discuss

Other pages address uses of VGs, or extensions to the basic VG abstraction, including
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