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Third IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'03)
p. 224
Creating Services with Hard Guarantees from Cycle-Harvesting Systems
Chris Kenyon, IBM Research
Giorgos Cheliotis, IBM Research
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Cycle-harvesting is a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating commercial service
contracts based on resources made available by cycle-
harvesting is a significant challenge: the characteristics of
the harvested resources are inherently stochastic; and secondly, in a commercial environment, purchasers can expect
providers to optimize against the quality of service (QoS)
definitions. The essential point for creating commerc ally
valuable QoS definitions is to guarantee a set of statistical
parameters for each contract instance. Here we describe
an appropriate QoS definition, Hard Statistical QoS (HSQ),
and show how this can be implemented using a hybrid
stochastic-deterministic system. We analyze algorithm behavior analytically using a distribution-free approach versus the expected proportion of deterministic resources required for an HSQ specification. We conclude that commercial service contracts based on cycle-harvested resources
are viable both from a conceptual point of view and quantitatively.
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Citation:
Chris Kenyon, Giorgos Cheliotis,
"Creating Services with Hard Guarantees from Cycle-Harvesting Systems,"
ccgrid,
p. 224,
Third IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'03),
2003
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