A framework for economic scheduling in Grid computing using tender/Contract-net model

In Grid computing, the resources of many machines are used to execute jobs submitted by users. One of the research issues in Grid is the allocation process; the mapping of jobs to the various resources. This paper addresses the concept of applying strategies to the scheduling task. To this end a framework for economic scheduling in Grid computing using Tender/Contract-net model is presented. The performance of each user strategy in terms of job success rate, cost per MI (Million Instruction) and average job satisfaction rate and the performance of each resource strategy in term of profit are evaluated by simulation. The evaluations show the performance of each strategy for different numbers of jobs with both static and dynamic submission of jobs. Keywords— Grid computing, Economic scheduling, Framework, Tender/Contract-net model.