Nimrod-G resource broker for service-oriented grid computing

Abstract

A computational economy framework for resource allocation and supply and demand regulation for resources was proposed. The new framework offers incentive to resource owners for being part of the Grid and motivates resource users to trade-off between time of results delivery and computational cost. Nimrod-G is a tool for automated modeling and execution of parameter sweep applications over global computational Grids. Nimrod tools for modeling parametric experiments are quite mature and in production use for cluster computing.