Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing - MGC'06 (in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference 2006, Melbourne, Australia - November 27, 2006)
Grid infrastructures often rely on centralised services for
resource management and quota enforcement. This is an
efficient approach for small and mid-size grids, but it is a
potential bottleneck in case of large-scale infrastructures.
Furthermore, additional installation and maintenance work
is needed to provide a fault-tolerant solution.
This paper presents a decentralised, fault-tolerant, and
scalable quota enforcement protocol. By utilising the concept
of diffusive load balancing, unused resource quotas dedicated
to projects are equally balanced over all supporting
nodes. This enables the enforcement of upper resource
bounds, while being adaptive to changes in resource demands.
@INPROCEEDINGS{kapitza06decentralised,
author = {Rüdiger Kapitza and Meik Felser and Hans P. Reiser and Franz J. Hauck},
title = {Decentralised diffusion-based quota management},
booktitle = {MCG '06: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing},
year = {2006},
isbn = {1-59593-581-9},
location = {Melbourne, Australia},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1186675.1186680},
publisher = {ACM Press},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}