基于截止时间满意度的网格工作流调度算法

动态网格环境中用户截止时间保障是工作流调度问题的一个挑战.利用随机服务模型来描述网格资源的动态处理能力及其动态负载压力,提出了截止时间满意度的概念和工作流截止时间满意度的计算方法.将以DAG图形式表示的任务执行关系转换为以数值表示的任务执行优先级,并根据最大截止时间满意度优先的思想,确定执行工作流子任务的候选资源;将工作流全局截止时间划分问题描述为一个约束下的非线性规划问题并通过已有方法求解该问题,提出了一种截止时间满意度增强的工作流调度算法(DSESAW).仿真实验采用实际网格应用和系统数据来验证所提出算法的性能表现,实验结果表明新算法在网格环境的自适应性和用户截止时间保障方面优于其他两种实际网格系统中的调度算法.     

时间约束下可靠性增强的网格工作流调度算法

如何在动态性极强的网格环境中有效调度工作流应用并满足用户的QoS需求是一个难题.传统的基于资源静态特征的启发式调度算法或预留策略缺乏对资源动态服务能力的有效评估而无法保证工作流应用的截止时间约束.本文采用随机服务模型建模网格资源的动态性能并考虑资源内处理单元失效的情况.利用生灭过程描述资源节点中处理单元数目的变化情况并给出了资源节点在任务截止时间内的可靠性评估方法.在此基础上,提出一种可靠性增强的网格工作流调度算法RSA_TC.实验结果表明RSA_TC算法相对于DSESAW和PFAS算法,能有效保证用户截止时间的要求,对动态网格环境有较好的自适应性.     

网格环境下费用约束的科学工作流可靠调度算法

网格基础设施是目前科学工作流应用规划、部署和执行的主要支撑环境.然而由于网格资源的自治、动态及异构性,如何在保障用户QoS约束下有效调度科学工作流是一个研究热点.针对费用约束下的科学工作流调度问题,为了提高其执行的可靠性,本文使用随机服务模型描述资源节点的动态服务能力并考虑本地任务负载对资源执行性能的影响,给出一种资源可靠性的评估方法,在此基础上提出一种费用约束下的科学工作流可靠调度算法RSASW.仿真实验结果表明RSASW算法相对于GAIN3,GreedyTime-CD及PFAS算法,对工作流的执行具有很好的可靠性保障.     

网格环境下工作流的费用-时间调度算法

开放网格服务架构（OGSA）和计算经济模型的提出，使得动态的、不同QoS的服务支持下的资源调度成为一个复杂且具有挑战性的问题。该文提出了网格环境下基于费用-时间的工作流调度算法，该算法采用动态资源选择策略适应网格计算环境下的动态性和自治性。在追求较小的工作流完成时间的同时，对费用进行了优化。模拟结果显示该调度算法符合计算网格的复杂环境，能够更好地满足不同用户的实际需要。     

基于扩展关键活动的工作流调度算法

服务资源分配和调度在开放网格服务架构环境中是一个复杂且具有挑战性的问题.为适应网格计算环境下服务资源的动态性和自治性,提出一个基于扩展关键活动的工作流调度算法,采用动态选择所需服务资源的策略,工作流完成时间和所需成本得到一定程度的平衡.实验结果表明该调度算法在完成时间、成本等方面可得到较满意的结果,能更好地满足用户实际需要.     

虚拟网格服务工作流的调度算法研究

对虚拟网格服务工作流的调度算法进行了研究,提出了最小计算时间(MCT)、最小传输时间(MTT)、最小执行时间(MET)3种虚拟网格服务工作流的调度算法.在满足给定假设的情况下,MCT、MTT、MET的调度分别能保证目标工作流获得最小计算时间、最小传输时间、最小执行时间.在描述了调度算法之后,证明了算法调度的正确性.对几种算法的调度性能进行实验模拟,并分析和比较了它们的实现代价和时间、空间复杂度,从而给出各算法的适用情况.     

基于动态有色Petri网的网格服务工作流模型的研究

在深入了解网格技术、网格服务和网格工作流的概念、特点及其应用的基础上,提出了一种可行的网格服务工作流系统模型,重点介绍了动态优化建模技术、动态调度算法的实现思想.定义了一种动态有色Petri网作为服务工作流的建模工具,支持服务工作流的动态优化建模和动态调度,并为服务工作流模型提供性能评价依据.验证表明采用该模型能够很好地满足用户的QoS要求,并且有助于提高资源利用率.     

服务网格虚拟服务动态部署和自适应策略

以"服务"的形式包装网格资源已成为一种趋势,并得到网格界的一致认可.为了更加充分灵活的利用网格资源,提出了一个网格虚拟服务动态部署架构以及基于此架构的服务平衡调度算法,通过服务按需部署和实时监控,动态调整资源在不同任务间的分配,并在需要时进行任务迁移,保证应用的服务质量.实验结果表明此系统较其它系统在资源利用率、QoS命中率上都有一定的提高.     

基于最优虚拟截止日期多处理器混合时序调度

为提高混合临界系统实时调度有效性,提出基于最优虚拟截止日期的多处理器混合时序调度算法.将现有非抢占最早截止时间可调度性测试算法推广到混合临界多处理器系统,引入时序保证技术,确保系统在两个不同临界值间过渡;将所提可调度性测试扩展到混合临界系统,利用系统级截止期缩减参数控制,设计最优虚拟截止日期分配策略.仿真结果表明,采用最优虚拟截止时间分配策略可调度性测试可发现大量额外可调度任务集,实现混合临界多处理器非抢占调度性能提升.     

网格计算中一种改进的工作流调度算法

网格计算中如何有效地实现工作流的调度问题是目前的研究热点。文中综合考虑了资源节点的动态负载和服务能力,提出了一种改进的调度算法（AWSA）。该算法首先对任务的优先级进行降序排列,然后依次为它们选择具有最大截止时间约束的服务站点作为其候选资源,最后,依据资源站点的任务分配情况和负载变化趋势,白适应地实现从任务资源请求到站点的映射。仿真实验结果表明,文中方法是有效的,在作业拒绝率和作业调度长度方面,AWSA的性能要优于已有的方法。     

混合云环境中数据敏感工作流调度

混合云环境下调度包含敏感数据的工作流主要考虑在满足数据安全性以及工作流截止时间的前提下,对工作流任务在混合云上进行分配,实现计算资源与任务的映射,并优化调度费用。采用了整数规划来建模求解包含数据敏感性、截止时间和调度费用3种约束条件的混合云工作流调度问题,同时为优化模型求解速度,基于“帕雷托最优”原理对工作流任务在混合云上的分配方案进行筛选以减小模型求解规模。实验表明,优先排除不合理的任务分配方案可有效减小整数规划模型的求解规模,缩短模型计算时间,在产生较小误差的情况下获得较优的调度结果。     

基于网格资源预测的任务优先级调度算法

根据网格工作流中任务的依赖关系和截止时间,以及资源的有效度和MIPS（每秒百万条指令）,提出基于网格资源预测的任务优先级调度算法。把网格任务工作流抽象为有向无环图,找到该工作流的关键路径,计算每个任务的最迟开始执行时间,作为任务的优先级。在算法中考虑用户的要求和资源的类型,以及任务调度失败后重新分配的问题。实验验证了该算法的有效性。     

云中截止时间动态分配的工作流调度成本优化算法

现如今,如何在满足截止时间约束的前提下降低工作流的执行成本,是云中工作流调度的主要问题之一。三步列表调度算法可以有效解决这一问题。但该算法在截止时间分配阶段只能形成静态的子截止时间。为方便用户部署工作流任务,云服务商为用户提供了的三种实例类型,其中竞价实例具有非常大的价格优势。为解决上述问题,提出了截止时间动态分配的工作流调度成本优化算法(S-DTDA)。该算法利用粒子群算法对截止时间进行动态分配,弥补了三步列表调度算法的缺陷。在虚拟机选择阶段,该算法在候选资源中增加了竞价实例,大大降低了执行成本。实验结果表明,相较于其他经典算法,该算法在实验成功率和执行成本上具有明显优势。综上所述,S-DTDA算法可以有效解决工作流调度中截止时间约束的成本优化问题。     

Semantic-enabled CARE Resource Broker (SeCRB) for managing grid and cloud environment

Grid computing is mainly helpful for executing high-performance computing applications. However, conventional grid resources sometimes fail to offer a dynamic application execution environment and this increases the rate at which the job requests of users are rejected. Integrating emerging virtualization technologies in grid and cloud computing facilitates the provision of dynamic virtual resources in the required execution environment. Resource brokers play a significant role in managing grid and cloud resources as well as identifying potential resources that satisfy users’ application requests. This research paper proposes a semantic-enabled CARE Resource Broker (SeCRB) that provides a common framework to describe grid and cloud resources, and to discover them in an intelligent manner by considering software, hardware and quality of service (QoS) requirements. The proposed semantic resource discovery mechanism classifies the resources into three categories viz., exact, high-similarity subsume and high-similarity plug-in regions. To achieve the necessary user QoS requirements, we have included a service level agreement (SLA) negotiation mechanism that pairs users’ QoS requirements with matching resources to guarantee the execution of applications, and to achieve the desired QoS of users. Finally, we have implemented the QoS-based resource scheduling mechanism that selects the resources from the SLA negotiation accepted list in an optimal manner. The proposed work is simulated and evaluated by submitting real-world bio-informatics and image processing application for various test cases. The result of the experiment shows that for jobs submitted to the resource broker, job rejection rate is reduced while job success and scheduling rates are increased, thus making the resource management system more efficient.     

A hybrid heuristic workflow scheduling algorithm for cloud computing environments

Cloud computing is a relatively new concept in the distributed systems and is widely accepted as a new solution for high performance and distributed computing. Its dynamisms in providing virtual resources for organisations and laboratories and its pay-per-use policy make it very popular. A workflow models a process consisting of a series of steps that shape an application. Workflow scheduling is the method for assigning each workflow task to a processing resource in a way that specific workflow rules are satisfied. Some scheduling algorithms for workflows may assume some quality of service parameter such as cost and deadline. Some efforts have been done on workflow scheduling on cloud computing environments with different service level agreements. But most of them suffer from low speed. Here, we introduce a new hybrid heuristic algorithm based on particle swarm optimisation (PSO) and gravitation search algorithms. The proposed algorithm, in addition to processing cost and transfer cost, takes deadline limitations into account. The proposed workflow scheduling approach can be used by both end-users and utility providers. The CloudSim toolkit is used as a cloud environment simulator and the Amazon EC2 pricing is the reference pricing used. Our experimental result shows about 70% cost reduction, in comparison to non-heuristic implementations, 30% cost reduction in comparison to PSO, 30% cost reduction in comparison to gravitational search algorithm and 50% cost reduction in comparison to hybrid genetic-gravitational algorithm.     

基于云计算的电网企业信息运维模式研究

随着电网企业大量信息系统及设备投运,传统运维方式在调度数据及资源的灵活性和实时性方面出现了瓶颈,运维服务保障能力亟待提升。为解决以上问题,本文提出一种基于云计算的电网企业信息运维模式,从梳理业务需求处理流程入手,建设信息系统资源池平台和桌面云终端资源平台,整合公司信息系统及终端资源,为运维工作提供技术支撑。同时,优化云调度,完善云检修,提升信息资源利用效能。最后,规范服务交付流程,健全运维保障体系,明确信息运维管理格局,增强运维管控水平。该模式可快速响应资源调度,优化资源使用效能,提升用户体验,实现从面向设备为核心到面向服务为核心的运维管理模式新转变,全面提升信息运维服务保障能力和内部资源管控能力。     

A delay-based dynamic scheduling algorithm for bag-of-task workflows with stochastic task execution times in clouds

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) workflows are widespread in many big data analysis fields. However, there are very few cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms tailored for BoT workflows. Furthermore, existing algorithms fail to consider the stochastic task execution times of BoT workflows which leads to deadline violations and increased resource renting costs. In this paper, we propose a dynamic cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithm which aims to fulfill the workflow deadline by using the sum of task execution time expectation and standard deviation to estimate real task execution times. A bag-based delay scheduling strategy and a single-type based virtual machine interval renting method are presented to decrease the resource renting cost. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using a cloud simulator ElasticSim which is extended from CloudSim. The results show that the dynamic algorithm decreases the resource renting cost while guaranteeing the workflow deadline compared to the existing algorithms.     

Market‐based grid resource co‐allocation and reservation for applications with hard deadlines

Grid computing technology enables the creation of large‐scale IT infrastructures that are shared across organizational boundaries. In such shared infrastructures, conflicts between user requirements are common and originate from the selfish actions that users perform when formulating their service requests. The introduction of economic principles in grid resource management offers a promising way of dealing with these conflicts. We develop and analyze both a centralized and a decentralized algorithm for economic grid resource management in the context of compute bound applications with deadline‐based quality of service requirements and non‐migratable workloads. Through the use of reservations, we co‐allocate resources across multiple providers in order to ensure that applications finish within their deadline. An evaluation of both algorithms is presented and their performance in terms of realized user value is compared with an existing market‐based resource management algorithm. We establish that our algorithms, which operate under a more realistic workload model, can closely approximate the performance of this algorithm. We also quantify the effect of allowing local workload preemption and different scheduling heuristics on the realized user value. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An Effective Cloud Workflow Scheduling Approach Combining PSO and Idle Time Slot-Aware Rules

Workflow scheduling is a key issue and remains a challenging problem in cloud computing.Faced with the large number of virtual machine(VM)types offered by cloud providers,cloud users need to choose the most appropriate VM type for each task.Multiple task scheduling sequences exist in a workflow application.Different task scheduling sequences have a significant impact on the scheduling performance.It is not easy to determine the most appropriate set of VM types for tasks and the best task scheduling sequence.Besides,the idle time slots on VM instances should be used fully to increase resources'utilization and save the execution cost of a workflow.This paper considers these three aspects simultaneously and proposes a cloud workflow scheduling approach which combines particle swarm optimization(PSO)and idle time slot-aware rules,to minimize the execution cost of a workflow application under a deadline constraint.A new particle encoding is devised to represent the VM type required by each task and the scheduling sequence of tasks.An idle time slot-aware decoding procedure is proposed to decode a particle into a scheduling solution.To handle tasks'invalid priorities caused by the randomness of PSO,a repair method is used to repair those priorities to produce valid task scheduling sequences.The proposed approach is compared with state-of-the-art cloud workflow scheduling algorithms.Experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms the comparative algorithms in terms of both of the execution cost and the success rate in meeting the deadline.