Design of the force field task assignment method and associated performance evaluation for desktop grids

Abstract

In the case of desktop grids, a single hardware-determined latency and constant bandwidth between processors cannot be assumed without incurring in unnecessary error. The actual network topology is determined not only by the physical hardware, but also by the instantaneous bandwidth availability for parallel processes to communicate. In this paper we present a novel task assignment scheme which takes the dynamic network topology into consideration along with the traditionally evaluated variables such as processor availability and potential. The method performs increasingly better as the grid size increases. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.