Resource allocation in the Grid. A market engineering approach

• Main Author: Schnizler, Björn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2007
• Series: Studies on eOrganisation and Market Engineering
• Subjects: Market-Engineering; Scheduling; Ressourcenallokation; Auktion; Grid Computing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Grid provides access to distributed computational capabilities such as processors or storage space. One of the key problems is deciding which jobs are to be allocated to which resources at what time. In this context, the use of market mechanisms is a promising approach to solve these problems. T...