Economic-based Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing

Thesis Contents:

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• Thesis Opening : Table of Contents, Abstract, etc.
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Grid Technologies and Resource Management Systems
• Chapter 3: Service-Oriented Grid Architecture for Distributed Computational Economies
• Chapter 4: The Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker and Economic Scheduling Algorithms
• Chapter 5: GridSim: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Grid Resource Management and Scheduling
• Chapter 6: Scheduling Simulations
• Chapter 7: The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling Drug Design on the Grid
• Chapter 8: Conclusions and Future Directions
• Appendix
• Bibliography

Entire Thesis:

• Thesis.pdf
• A ZIP file containing thesis.pdf
• e-Print archive (it has many mirror sites)

Software Prototypes/Demonstrators

• Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker
• GridSim
• Virtual Laboratory

Examiners Reports - well, it took 9 months to get them!

• Snapshot of Report 1
• Snapshot of Report 2

Two Public Reviews

• Tools automate computer sharing, By Ted Smalley Bowen, Technology Research News, September 12, 2001
• Toolset teams computers to design drugs, By Ted Smalley Bowen, Technology Research News, USA. January 16, 2002.

Next Generation Research/Commercial Leads

Appears many -- given that we often hear in the press about grid computing and related notions such as utility computing, on demand computing, service-oriented computing demonstrated in this thesis!

• My own follow-up research is carried out through the Gridbus project
• European Commission (EC)'s Grid Research 2005 - 2010 Agenda: Next Generation Grids is another high profile effort that recoginses the importance of Grid Economy and started initiatives that advance it.

Bibliographic Entry:

Rajkumar Buyya, "Economic-based Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing", PhD Thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, April 12, 2002. Online at: http://www.buyya.com/thesis/thesis.pdf

Keywords: Grid Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture, Resource Management, Deadline and Budget Constrained Scheduling, and Quality of Services (QoS).

Contact