Scheduler Oriented Grid Performance Evaluation

Grid computing is a fast developing technology as an approach to do high performance scientific and engineering computation. The research work on Grid performance evaluation and modeling, an important supporting factor, is still immature and not considered inherently grid middleware design. In this paper, we proposed a scheduler oriented grid performance evaluation approach so that it closely cooperates with grid schedulers. A typical scenario of how the the grid performance modules interact with the scheduler is also introduced and analyzed. The advantage is that the grid scheduler is able to get more performance information about remote sites and hence improve the scheduling policy for grid jobs and ensure the quality of service to some extent.