Journal of Applied Science and Engineering

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Huimin Luo1,2, Chaokun Yan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1 and Zhigang Hu2

1School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, P.R. China
2School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China


 

Received: February 18, 2013
Accepted: January 12, 2015
Publication Date: March 1, 2015

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2015.18.1.09  


ABSTRACT


Deadline guarantee is an important QoS requirement for some critical scientific workflow applications. However, the resource heterogeneity and the unpredictable workloads make it difficult for grid system to provide efficient deadline-guarantee service for those applications. Recent IaaS providers, such as Amazon’s EC2, provide virtualized on-demand computing resources on a pay-per-use model, which can be aggregated to the existing grid resource pool to enhance deadline-guarantee of scientific workflow. In this paper, a novel workflow scheduling algorithm DGESA is proposed. First, we evaluate the degree of deadline-guarantee for subtasks of workflow in grid system based on proposed probabilistic deadline guarantee model. Then, proper cloud resources are selected as an accelerator to enhance the deadline-guarantee of subtasks. The experimental results show that proposed algorithm achieves better performance than other algorithms on user’s deadline guarantee.


Keywords: Scientific Workflow, IaaS, Grid, Scheduling, Stochastic Service Model


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