Ryan Zhang, Grid Centric Scheduling Strategies for Workflow Applications

Grid computing faces a great challenge that the resources are not localized, but distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic. Thus, it is essential to provide a set of programming tools that execute an application on the Grid resources with as little input from the user as possible. My work addresses this challenge in the following three different aspects: scalability, performance and reliability. This talk will first give a brief background on the Grid computing and related projects and researches. Then I will talk about my previous work on the scalability, performance domain. Finally, as a practice conference talk, I will talk about my recent work on the reliability issues of executing workflow applications on a multi-cluster Grid.