Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, Volume 2536/2002, 232-242, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36133-2_21

Experiments with Scheduling Using Simulated Annealing in a Grid Environment

Asim YarKhan and Jack J. Dongarra

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Abstract

Generating high quality schedules for distributed applications on a Computational Grid is a challenging problem. Some experiments using Simulated Annealing as a scheduling mechanism for a ScaLAPACK LU solver on a Grid are described. The Simulated Annealing scheduler is compared to a Ad-Hoc Greedy scheduler used in earlier experiments. The Simulated Annealing scheduler exposes some assumptions built into the Ad-Hoc scheduler and some problems with the Performance Model being used.
This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation contract GRANT #E81-9975020, SC R36505-29200099, R011030-09, “Next Generation Software: Grid Application Development Software (GrADS)”.

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