Reducing job failure due to churn in dynamics grids

Abstract

The utilization of desktop grid computing in large-scale computational applications is an important issue at present for solving compute-intensive problems. However, such large-scale distributed systems are subject to churn, i.e., continuous hosts arrival, leaving and failure. We address the problem of churn in dynamic grids, and evaluate the impact of reliability-aware resource allocation on the performance of the system. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.