A survey on resource allocation in high performance distributed computing systems

Parallel Computing

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 709-736

  Hussain, Hameed ^a   Malik, Saif Ur Rehman ^b   Hameed, Abdul ^b   Khan, Samee Ullah ^b   Bickler, Gage ^b   Min Allah, Nasro ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad Bilal ^a   Zhang, Limin ^b   Yongji, Wang ^c   Ghani, Nasir ^d   Kolodziej, Joanna ^e   Zomaya, Albert Y ^f   Xu, Cheng Zhong ^g   Balaji, Pavan ^h   Vishnu, Abhinav ⁱ   Pinel, Fredric ^j   Pecero, Johnatan E ^j   Kliazovich, Dzmitry ^j   Bouvry, Pascal ^j   Li, Hongxiang ^k   Wang, Lizhe ^l   Chen, Dan ^m   Rayes, Ammar ⁿ   more..

^a Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^l CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^m CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

ⁿ CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Resource allocation; Resource management; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING; SURVEYS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 84887272273     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2013.09.009     Document Type: Review

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141. S.U. Khan, A goal programming approach for the joint optimization of energy consumption and response time in computational grids, in: 28th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, USA, December 2009, pp. 410-417.
142. J. Kołodziej, S.U. Khan, L. Wang, M. Kisiel-Dorohinicki, S.A. Madani, E. Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, A.Y. Zomaya, C. Xu, Security, energy, and performance-aware resource allocation mechanisms for computational grids, Future Generation Computer Systems, October 2012, ISSN 0167-739X, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.future.2012.09.009.
143. G.L. Valentini, W. Lassonde, S.U. Khan, N. Min-Allah, S.A. Madani, J. Li, L. Zhang, L. Wang, N. Ghani, J. Kolodziej, H. Li, A.Y. Zomaya, C.-Z. Xu, P. Balaji, A. Vishnu, F. Pinel, J.E. Pecero, D. Kliazovich, and P. Bouvry An overview of energy efficiency techniques in cluster computing systems Cluster Computing 16 1 2013 3 15
144. F. Pinel, J.E. Pecero, S.U. Khan, P. Bouvry, Energy-efficient scheduling on milliclusters with performance constraints, in: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Chengdu, Sichuan, China, August 2011, pp. 44-49.
145. L. Wang, S.U. Khan, D. Chen, J. Kolodziej, R. Ranjan, C.-Z. Xu, and A.Y. Zomaya Energy-aware parallel task scheduling in a cluster Future Generation Computer Systems 29 7 2013 1661 1670
146. L. Wang, J. Tao, H. Marten, A. Streit, S.U. Khan, J. Kolodziej, D. Chen, MapReduce across distributed clusters for data-intensive applications, in: 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Shanghai, China, May 2012, pp. 2004-2011.
147. J. Kolodiej, S.U. Khan, E. Gelenbe, and E.-G. Talbi Scalable optimization in grid, cloud, and intelligent network computing Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 25 12 2013 1719 1721
148. D. Kliazovich, P. Bouvry, Y. Audzevich, S.U. Khan, GreenCloud: a packet-level simulator of energy-aware cloud computing data centers, in: 53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Miami, FL, USA, December 2010.
149. K. Bilal, S.U. Khan, L. Zhang, H. Li, K. Hayat, S.A. Madani, N. Min-Allah, L. Wang, D. Chen, M. Iqbal, C.-Z. Xu, and A.Y. Zomaya Quantitative comparisons of the state of the art data center architectures Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 25 12 2013 1771 1783
150. J. Shuja, S.A. Madani, K. Bilal, K. Hayat, S.U. Khan, and S. Sarwar Energy-efficient data centers Computing 94 12 2012 973 994