Scheduling & Resource Management at GGF5

Mailing list: sched-wg@gridforum.org
Co-leads for area: Bill Nitzberg and Jennifer Schopf
Web page: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/

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Working Group and BOF sessions

Detailed Agendas

Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol WG (GRAAP)

Monday 7/22 10:30-12:00, Harris 1
To discuss protocol for interactions between local resource management systems and grid level schedulers.
1.) Discussion of the Charter
2.) Discussion of Requirement documents SchedWD12.2, SNAP
3.) Discussion of the Advance Reservation Survey Document
4.) Next steps
Documents: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/GGF5/sched-GRAAP.1.pdf
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/GGF5/sched-GRAAP.2.pdf
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/GGF5/sched-GRAAP.3.pdf

DRMAA WG

DRMAA slot #1 Agenda
Monday 7/22 13:00-14:30, Harris 1
This is a working session. The outstanding issues will addressed and discussed in detail. Familiarity with the DRMAA current specification document is required.
Document: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/GGF5/sched-DRMAA.1.pdf

DRMAA slot #2 Agenda
Tuesday 7/23 15:00-16:30, Harris 1 Review of the status. The review is targeted to both old and new DRMAA participants. There will be time provided for questions and a discussion.

Scheduling Dictionary WG

Tue, Jul 23, 2002: 8:30am - 10:00am, Harris 1
The meeting will used for the discussion of the first draft of definition and use of terms, i.e. the current list of dictionary terms and the commentarial text along with it.
Document: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/GGF5/sched-Dict.1.pdf

Grid Scheduling Architecture - Proposed WG

Tue, Jul 23, 2002: 16:30 - 18:00, Carrick
Uwe Schwiegelshohn
Based on the Scheduler Attribute Document, this working group has the object to define the architecture of a grid scheduler. This definition shall serve as basis for a first implementation of such a grid scheduler. Specifically, we want to discuss the interaction between a grid scheduler and other components like the grid information system, local resource management systems and network management systems. Additionally, we want to address the relationsship between hardware resource management and data management.
In this session we present a draft for a working group charter and a rough first draft of a document describing this architecture.

Scheduling Optimization - Proposed RG

Tue, Jul 23, 2002: 7:30pm - 8:30pm, Carrick
Vincenzo Di Martino, vincenzo.dimartino@caspur.it
The aim of this research group is the investigation of the available scheduling techniques in the framework of the Grid infrastructure. Possible goals for this group include case studies of existing optimization techniques used in current schedulers, agreement on terms to discuss optimization techniques, comparison of optimization techniques used in current systems, etc.

Usage Record - Proposed WG

Tue, 7/23, TIME PLACE
Laura McGinnis (lfm@psc.edu)
In order for resources to be shared, sites must be able to exchange basic accounting and usage data in a common format. This group proposes to define a common usage record based on those in current practice. Once this is done, we will ook at the basic interactions needed to exchange and share this data.

OGSA Resource Usage Service Proposed WG

Tuesday 7/23, 19:30-20:30, Tinto room
Steven Newhouse sjn5@doc.ic.ac.uk
Purpose:
To define an OGSA compatible Resource Usage Service and associated client side and management tools for deployment within an OGSA hosting environment. This service will track resource usage (accounting in the traditional UNIX sense) and will not concern itself with payment for the use of the resource.
Goal:
To enable the tracking of resource usage within Grid Services deployed within an OGSA environment. As the 'resources' that need to be tracked (e.g. CPU, time, memory) may be vary between services and over time an extensible schema will be used to structure this information.
Activity:
a) Definition of service interface to add & search records for accounting information.
b) Defining a security model that protects and individuals right to privacy relating to how they used a service.
c) Define a (minimal but extendsible) set of commonly understood attributes to describe resource usage. (NB: Potentially leverage existing work in the Accounting RG and the Scheduling Dictionary WG.)
Plan:

Grid Economic Brokering Architecture Proposed WG

Tuesday 7/23, 16:30-18:00, Ochil 1
Steven Newhouse, sjn5@doc.ic.ac.uk
Purpose:
To define the protocols and service interfaces needed to extensibly support a variety of negotiating mechanisms for the charging of Grid Services deployed within OGSA.
Goal:
To provide the supporting infrastructure to enable Computational and Data Grids operated by different organisations to `trade' services between each other. The purpose of the working group is to specify the protocols and service interfaces that will enable the exploration of these economic models but not to concentrate on the development of the economic models themselves.
Activity:
a) To define an open extensible brokering and negotiation architecture based around OGSA Grid Services.
b) To define a Grid Banking Service that records the financial transactions.
c) To define a Grid Brokering Service that enables the coordination of negotiations between resource consumers & brokers.
d) To define a standard negotiating protocol & interface that enables different economic models to be 'plugged' in.
Plan:

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