On the design of fault-tolerant scheduling strategies using primary-backup approach for computational grids with low replication costs

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 380-393

  Zheng, Qin ^a   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^b   Tham, Chen Khong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graphs; Fault tolerance; Grid computing; Independent tasks; Primary backup

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DEPENDENT TASKS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; DISTRIBUTED NODES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAULT TOLERANT SCHEDULING; INDEPENDENT TASKS; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL GRID; MINIMUM COMPLETION TIME; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; PRIMARY-BACKUP; REPLICATION COST; SCHEDULABILITY;

COSTS; DATA DESCRIPTION; GRID COMPUTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 64049088350     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2008.172     Document Type: Article

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