Grid computing environments need secure resource control and predictable service quality in order to be sustainable. We propose a grid hosting model in which independent, selfcontained grid deployments run within isolated containers on shared resource provider sites. Sites and hosted grids interact via an underlying resource control plane to manage a dynamic binding of computational resources to containers. We present a prototype grid hosting system, in which a set of independent Globus grids share a network of cluster sites. Each grid instance runs a coordinator that leases and configures cluster resources for its grid on demand. Experiments demonstrate adaptive provisioning of cluster resources and contrast job-level and container-level resource management in the context of two grid application managers.
Citation:
Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Laura Grit, Adriana Iamnitchi, David Irwin, Aydan Yumerefendi, Jeff Chase, "Toward a Doctrine of Containment: Grid Hosting with Adaptive Resource Control," sc, pp.20, ACM/IEEE SC 2006 Conference (SC'06), 2006