Towards Soft Real-Time Applications on Enterprise Desktop Grids

— Desktop grids use the idle cycles of desktop PC’s to provide huge computational power at low cost. However, because the underlying desktop computing resources are volatile, achieving performance guarantees such as task completion rate is difficult. We investigate the use of buffering to ensure task completion rates, which is essential for soft real-time applications. In particular, we develop a model of task completion rate as a function of buffer size. We instantiate this model using parameters derived from two enterprise desktop grid data sets, evaluate the model via trace-driven simulation, and show how this model can be used to ensure application task completion rates on enterprise desktop grid systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Derrick Kondo, Bruno Kindarji, Gilles Fedak, Franck Cappello
• Keywords: CCGRID 2006, Cluster Computing, Desktop Grid, Enterprise Desktop Grid, Task Completion Rates