CISNE-P: a global scheduling oriented to NOW environments

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Torchinsky, Matias
Hanzich, Mauricio
Hernández Budé, Porfidio
Luque, Emilio
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Torchinsky, Matias;
Hanzich, Mauricio;
Hernández Budé, Porfidio;
Luque, Emilio;
Giné, Francesc;
Solsona Tehàs, Francesc;
Lérida Monsó, Josep Lluís;
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(2007)
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CISNE-P: a global scheduling oriented to NOW environments.
Journal of Computer Science & Technology, 2007, vol. 7, núm. 1, p. 72-78.
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/41500.
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In this work, we present an integral scheduling system for non-dedicated clusters, termed CISNE-P, which ensures the performance required by the local applications, while simultaneously allocating cluster resources to parallel jobs. Our approach solves the problem efficiently by using a social contract technique. This kind of technique is based on reserving computational resources, preserving a predetermined response time to local users. CISNE-P is a middleware which includes both a previously developed space-sharing job scheduler and a dynamic coscheduling system, a time sharing scheduling component. The experimentation performed in a Linux cluster shows that these two scheduler components are complementary and a good coordination improves global performance significantly. We also compare two different CISNE-P implementations: one developed inside the kernel, and the other entirely implemented in the user space.