网格环境下费用约束的科学工作流可靠调度算法

网格基础设施是目前科学工作流应用规划、部署和执行的主要支撑环境.然而由于网格资源的自治、动态及异构性,如何在保障用户QoS约束下有效调度科学工作流是一个研究热点.针对费用约束下的科学工作流调度问题,为了提高其执行的可靠性,本文使用随机服务模型描述资源节点的动态服务能力并考虑本地任务负载对资源执行性能的影响,给出一种资源可靠性的评估方法,在此基础上提出一种费用约束下的科学工作流可靠调度算法RSASW.仿真实验结果表明RSASW算法相对于GAIN3,GreedyTime-CD及PFAS算法,对工作流的执行具有很好的可靠性保障.     

DAGMap: efficient and dependable scheduling of DAG workflow job in Grid

DAG has been extensively used in Grid workflow modeling. Since Grid resources tend to be heterogeneous and dynamic, efficient and dependable workflow job scheduling becomes essential. It poses great challenges to achieve minimum job accomplishing time and high resource utilization efficiency, while providing fault tolerance. Based on list scheduling and group scheduling, in this paper, we propose a novel scheduling heuristic called DAGMap. DAGMap consists of two phases, namely Static Mapping and Dependable Execution. Four salient features of DAGMap are: (1) Task grouping is based on dependency relationships and task upward priority; (2) Critical tasks are scheduled first; (3) Min-Min and Max-Min selective scheduling are used for independent tasks; and (4) Checkpoint server with cooperative checkpointing is designed for dependable execution. The experimental results show that DAGMap can achieve better performance than other previous algorithms in terms of speedup, efficiency, and dependability.     

Reputation-based dependable scheduling of workflow applications in Peer-to-Peer Grids

Grids facilitate creation of wide-area collaborative environment for sharing computing or storage resources and various applications. Inter-connecting distributed Grid sites through peer-to-peer routing and information dissemination structure (also known as Peer-to-Peer Grids) is essential to avoid the problems of scheduling efficiency bottleneck and single point of failure in the centralized or hierarchical scheduling approaches. On the other hand, uncertainty and unreliability are facts in distributed infrastructures such as Peer-to-Peer Grids, which are triggered by multiple factors including scale, dynamism, failures, and incomplete global knowledge.In this paper, a reputation-based Grid workflow scheduling technique is proposed to counter the effect of inherent unreliability and temporal characteristics of computing resources in large scale, decentralized Peer-to-Peer Grid environments. The proposed approach builds upon structured peer-to-peer indexing and networking techniques to create a scalable wide-area overlay of Grid sites for supporting dependable scheduling of applications. The scheduling algorithm considers reliability of a Grid resource as a statistical property, which is globally computed in the decentralized Grid overlay based on dynamic feedbacks or reputation scores assigned by individual service consumers mediated via Grid resource brokers. The proposed algorithm dynamically adapts to changing resource conditions and offers significant performance gains as compared to traditional approaches in the event of unsuccessful job execution or resource failure. The results evaluated through an extensive trace driven simulation show that our scheduling technique can reduce the makespan up to 50% and successfully isolate the failure-prone resources from the system.     

Bi-level fuzzy based advanced reservation of Cloud workflow applications on distributed Grid resources

The increasing demand on execution of large-scale Cloud workflow applications which need a robust and elastic computing infrastructure usually lead to the use of high-performance Grid computing clusters. As the owners of Cloud applications expect to fulfill the requested Quality of Services (QoS) by the Grid environment, an adaptive scheduling mechanism is needed which enables to distribute a large number of related tasks with different computational and communication demands on multi-cluster Grid computing environments. Addressing the problem of scheduling large-scale Cloud workflow applications onto multi-cluster Grid environment regarding the QoS constraints declared by application’s owner is the main contribution of this paper. Heterogeneity of resource types (service type) is one of the most important issues which significantly affect workflow scheduling in Grid environment. On the other hand, a Cloud application workflow is usually consisting of different tasks with the need for different resource types to complete which we call it heterogeneity in workflow. The main idea which forms the soul of all the algorithms and techniques introduced in this paper is to match the heterogeneity in Cloud application’s workflow to the heterogeneity in Grid clusters. To obtain this objective a new bi-level advanced reservation strategy is introduced, which is based upon the idea of first performing global scheduling and then conducting local scheduling. Global-scheduling is responsible to dynamically partition the received DAG into multiple sub-workflows that is realized by two collaborating algorithms: (1) The Critical Path Extraction algorithm (CPE) which proposes a new dynamic task overall critically value strategy based on DAG’s specification and requested resource type QoS status to determine the criticality of each task; and (2) The DAG Partitioning algorithm (DAGP) which introduces a novel dynamic score-based approach to extract sub-workflows based on critical paths by using a new Fuzzy Qualitative Value Calculation System to evaluate the environment. Local-scheduling is responsible for scheduling tasks on suitable resources by utilizing a new Multi-Criteria Advance Reservation algorithm (MCAR) which simultaneously meets high reliability and QoS expectations for scheduling distributed Cloud-base applications. We used the simulation to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism in comparison with four well-known approaches. The results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other approaches in different QoS related terms.     

时间约束下可靠性增强的网格工作流调度算法

如何在动态性极强的网格环境中有效调度工作流应用并满足用户的QoS需求是一个难题.传统的基于资源静态特征的启发式调度算法或预留策略缺乏对资源动态服务能力的有效评估而无法保证工作流应用的截止时间约束.本文采用随机服务模型建模网格资源的动态性能并考虑资源内处理单元失效的情况.利用生灭过程描述资源节点中处理单元数目的变化情况并给出了资源节点在任务截止时间内的可靠性评估方法.在此基础上,提出一种可靠性增强的网格工作流调度算法RSA_TC.实验结果表明RSA_TC算法相对于DSESAW和PFAS算法,能有效保证用户截止时间的要求,对动态网格环境有较好的自适应性.     

基于动态有色Petri网的网格服务工作流模型的研究

在深入了解网格技术、网格服务和网格工作流的概念、特点及其应用的基础上,提出了一种可行的网格服务工作流系统模型,重点介绍了动态优化建模技术、动态调度算法的实现思想.定义了一种动态有色Petri网作为服务工作流的建模工具,支持服务工作流的动态优化建模和动态调度,并为服务工作流模型提供性能评价依据.验证表明采用该模型能够很好地满足用户的QoS要求,并且有助于提高资源利用率.     

ElasticSim: A Toolkit for Simulating Workflows with Cloud Resource Runtime Auto-Scaling and Stochastic Task Execution Times

Resource provisioning and scheduling are crucial for cloud workflow applications. Simulation is one of the most promising evaluation methods for different resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms. However, existing simulators for Cloud workflow applications fail to provide support for resource runtime auto-scaling and stochastic task execution time modeling. In this paper, a workflow simulator ElasticSim is introduced, which is an extension of the popular used CloudSim simulator by adding support for resource runtime auto-scaling and stochastic task execution time modeling. Most of existing workflow scheduling algorithms are static and are based on deterministic task execution times. By the aid of ElasticSim, the practical performance of existing static algorithms, when they are put into practice with stochastic task execution times, is evaluated. Experimental results show that about 2.8 % to 20 % additional resource rental cost is incurred for different cases and workflow deadlines are violated for most cases because of stochastic task execution times. Therefore, ElasticSim is a promising platform for evaluating the practical performance of workflow resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms, which supports resource runtime auto-scaling and stochastic task execution time modeling.     

DAG分割模型下的云工作流调度策略

为了优化云工作流调度的经济代价和执行效率,提出一种基于有向无循环图（DAG）分割的工作流调度算法PBWS。以工作流调度效率与代价同步优化为目标,算法将调度求解过程划分为三个阶段进行：工作流DAG结构分割、分割结构调整及资源分配。工作流DAG结构分割阶段在确保任务间执行顺序依赖的同时求解初始的任务分割图;分割结构调整阶段以降低执行跨度为目标,在不同分割间对任务进行重分配;资源分配阶段旨在选择代价最高效的任务与资源映射关系,确保资源的总空闲时间最小。利用五种科学工作流DAG模型对算法进行了仿真实验。结果表明。PBWS算法仅以较小的执行跨度为开销,极大降低了工作流执行代价,实现了调度效率与调度代价的同步优化,其综合性能是优于同类型算法的。     

A delay-based dynamic scheduling algorithm for bag-of-task workflows with stochastic task execution times in clouds

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) workflows are widespread in many big data analysis fields. However, there are very few cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms tailored for BoT workflows. Furthermore, existing algorithms fail to consider the stochastic task execution times of BoT workflows which leads to deadline violations and increased resource renting costs. In this paper, we propose a dynamic cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithm which aims to fulfill the workflow deadline by using the sum of task execution time expectation and standard deviation to estimate real task execution times. A bag-based delay scheduling strategy and a single-type based virtual machine interval renting method are presented to decrease the resource renting cost. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using a cloud simulator ElasticSim which is extended from CloudSim. The results show that the dynamic algorithm decreases the resource renting cost while guaranteeing the workflow deadline compared to the existing algorithms.     

Adaptive service scheduling for workflow applications in Service-Oriented Grid

When the workflow application is executed in Service-Oriented Grid (SOG), performance issues such as service scheduling should be considered, to achieve high and stable performance in execution. However, most of the prior works on workflow management neither study the performance issues nor provide evaluation methodologies on the performance of Grid Services. Therefore, it is infeasible to apply for the service scheduling problem in SOG. In this paper, we propose and model evaluation metrics for the Grid Service performance. The metrics are extracted based on common properties of Grid Services and are used to quantify and evaluate the performance of an individual Grid Service. With these metrics, we develop a service scheduling scheme with a list scheduling heuristic, to choose proper and optimal Grid Services for tasks in workflow applications. It ensures high performance in the execution of the workflow applications. In addition, we propose a low-overhead rescheduling method, referred to as Adaptive List Scheduling for Service (ALSS), to adapt to the dynamic nature of a grid environment. ALSS provides stable performance for workflow applications, even in abnormal circumstances. Finally, we design an experimental environment with actual traces and perform simulations to quantify the benefits of our approach. Throughout the experiments, we demonstrate that ALSS outperforms conventional scheduling methods. Our scheme produces a scheduling performance that is superior to AHEFT by 50.2%, SLACK by 50.8%, HEFT by 68.3%, MaxMin by 72.0%, MinMin by 71.0%, and Myopic by 69.8%.     

一种满足可靠性和能效的云工作流调度方法

为了同步解决云工作流调度时的失效和高能耗问题,提出一种基于可靠性和能效的工作流调度算法.算法为了在截止时间的QoS约束下最大化系统可靠性并最小化调度能耗,将工作流调度过程划分为四个阶段:计算任务优先级、工作流任务聚簇、截止时间子分配和任务调度.算法在满足执行次序的情况下对任务进行拓扑排序,并以通信代价最小为目标对任务进...     

一个市场驱动的QoS网格工作流任务调度算法

网格调度关系到整个网格任务运行的效率,因此在网格的研究过程中,已经提出了很多调度算法.但这些算法大部分是对元任务(Meta-task)进行调度,很少是针对关联任务的.在考虑用户QoS(Quality of Service)需求的情况下,提出了一个市场驱动的QoS网格工作流任务调度算法.仿真实验结果表明了该算法的合理性和有效性.     

一种基于Cache的网格任务反馈调度方法

网格调度的目标提高网格资源的利用率、改善网格应用的性能,它是网格中需着力解决的问题之一.目前,围绕着网格中的任务调度算法,国内外已做了大量的研究工作,先后提出了各种调度算法.但是,这些调度算法不能很好地适应网格环境下的自治性、动态性、分布性等特征.针对目前网格调度机制存在的问题,提出了一种动态的网格调度技术--基于Cache的反馈调度方法(cache based feedback scheduling,简称CBFS).该调度方法依据Cache中所存放的最近访问过的资源信息,如最近一次请求提交时间、任务完成时间等信息进行反馈调度,将任务提交给负载较小或性能较优的资源来完成.实验结果表明,CBFS方法不但可以有效减少不必要的延迟,而且在任务响应时间的平滑性、任务的吞吐率及任务在调度器等待调度的时间方面比随机调度等传统算法要好.     

基于资源状态可靠度的网格工作流调度算法

针对执行时间限制严格类型的DAG类型网格工作流提出一种新的基于资源状态可靠度的网格工作流调度算法。该算法根据用户提交的工作流执行时间要求,利用Chapman-Kolmogorov向后方程来计算出DAG图中关键路径上各资源在任务到达时刻均处于“闲状态”的概率大小,然后选择一组资源组合的状态可靠度大于用户要求的信任度置信水平α且总费用较低的一组资源。最后通过实验验证了该算法的有效性。     

基于微粒群算法的网格工作流优化调度问题的研究

网格工作流中的调度问题是一个复杂且具有挑战性的问题,它影响着网格工作流执行成功与否及效率的高低.针对具有时序和因果约束关系的网格工作流优化调度问题进行了研究,建立了网格工作流的任务调度模型和调度问题的目标模型,并应用微粒群算法来优化网格工作流中任务的调度.实验结果证明该算法优于传统的调度算法.     

Towards critical region reliability support for Grid workflows

Many Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based workflow applications often have timing constraints such that each processing of a workflow needs to be finished within its deadline. There have been some studies to improve the performance of time-constrained workflow processing. Few of them, however, have taken into account the fact that successful execution of a workflow within its deadline is also affected by the ‘normal state’ and ‘abnormal state’ of Grid resources occurring in successive turns and by the relative difference in execution time between tasks on the critical path and tasks on the non-critical path. To solve the problem, we first put forward new some conceptions, such as the critical region and the reliability of the critical region, and then present a scheduling algorithm. In terms of the finite-state continuous-time Markov process, the algorithm selects a resource combination scheme which has the lowest expenditure under a certain credit level of the resource reliability on the critical path in the DAG-based workflow. The simulation shows the validity of theory analysis.     

服务质量感知的网格工作流调度

在网格工作流中引入服务质量,可以使网格中的资源更好地围绕用户的要求进行组织和分配,服务质量为工作流执行过程中选择成员服务提供了依据.工作流服务质量的估算和服务质量感知的工作流调度是实现服务质量感知的网格工作流的两个关键问题.基于一种网格工作流模型讨论了网格工作流的服务质量参数体系,提出了工作流服务质量的估算算法和网格工作流调度数学模型,并提出了基于遗传算法的调度方法.仿真实验表明,该调度算法具有较好的收敛性.     

混合计算环境中截止期约束下的科学工作流调度策略

整合云和网格基础设施,增强科研机构现有网格系统的计算能力并向应用提供截止时间保障的服务是科学研究领域的热点。在这种"网格-云"混合计算环境中,对何时租借云虚拟资源以及如何租借做出有效决策是一个难题。现有的一些调度策略主要在网格资源静态能力特征的基础上,以作业等待时间作为决策依据,缺乏对资源动态服务能力的有效评估,无法保证科学应用的截止时间需求。本文提出了一种混合环境下的科学工作流执行系统架构并对其核心组件进行了阐述。针对其中的工作流调度问题,利用随机服务模型建模已有网格系统中的资源的动态服务能力,以任务违约风险作为是否租借外部虚拟资源的判断指标,提出了一个科学工作流调度算法HCA_SASWD。实验结果表明,HCA_SASWD相对于其他算法,能有效保证用户的截止时间要求,为需要提供截止时间保障的系统架构提供了参考。     

一种可靠性驱动的云工作流调度遗传算法

为了解决云环境中工作流调度的可靠性问题,提出了一种基于可靠性驱动信誉度模型的工作流调度遗传算法RDR-GA。算法以工作流执行跨度makespan与可靠性最优化为目标,设计了一种基于时间依赖的可靠性驱动信誉度模型,通过该模型可以有效评估资源可靠性。同时,为了寻找遗传最优解,算法设计了新的遗传进化和评估机制,包括：1)以进化算子对调度解中的任务-资源映射进行遗传进化;2)以两阶段MAX-MIN策略评估并决定调度解的任务执行序列。仿真实验结果表明,满足可靠性驱动的信誉度算法不仅能够以更精确的信誉度改善工作流应用执行可靠性,而且能够以比同类遗传算法更快的收敛速度得到进化更优解。