Synthetic Grid Workloads with Ibis, Koala, and Grenchmark (original) (raw)

Grid computing is becoming the natural way to aggregate and share large sets of heterogeneous resources. However, grid development and acceptance hinge on proving that grids reliably support real applications. A step in this direction is to combine several grid components into a demonstration and testing framework. This paper presents such an integration effort, in which three research prototypes, namely a grid application development toolkit (Ibis), a grid scheduler capable of coallocating resources (Koala), and a synthetic grid workload generator (GrenchMark), are used to generate and run workloads comprising well-established and new grid applications on our DAS multi-cluster testbed.