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A Compromised-Time-Cost Scheduling Algorithm in SwinDeW-C for Instance-Intensive Cost-Constrained Workflows on a Cloud Computing Platform

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: The concept of cloud computing continues to spread widely, as it has been accepted recently. Cloud computing has many unique advantages which can be utilized to facilitate workflow execution. Instance-intensive cost-constrained cloud workflows are workflows with a large number of workflow instances (i.e. instance intensive) bounded by a certain budget for execution (i.e. cost constrained) on a cloud computing platform (i.e. cloud workflows). However, there are, so far, no dedicated scheduling algorithms for instance-intensive cost-constrained cloud workflows. This paper presents a novel compromised-time-cost scheduling algorithm which considers the characteristics of cloud computing to accommodate instance-intensive cost-constrained workflows by compromising execution time and cost with user input enabled on the fly. The simulation performed demonstrates that the algorithm can cut down the mean execution cost by over 15% whilst meeting the user-designated deadline or shorten the mean execution time by over 20% within the user-designated execution cost.

Source: The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

DOI: 10.1177/1094342010369114

Authors: Ke Liu, Hai Jin, Jinjun Chen, Xiao Liu, Dong Yuan, Yun Yang

Institutions: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Australian Research Council

Award: Novel cloud computing based workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances