Survivability analysis of grid resource management system topology

Abstract

The resource management system is one of the essential components of Grids. A resource management system may be made up of one or many resource management nodes. The organization manner of the resource management nodes, i.e. the topology of a resource management system, is a key factor that should be considered carefully during the architecture design of resource management systems with respect to some specified requirements (e.g., performance, survivability). In this paper, a new survivability definition is proposed and the survivability of three typical Grid resource management system topologies (centralized, hierarchical, and peer-to-peer) is analyzed. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.