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Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance

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To better utilize its vast collection of heterogeneous resources that are geographically distributed across the United States, NASA is constructing a computational grid called the Information Power Grid (IPG). This paper describes various tools and techniques that we are developing to measure and improve the performance of a broad class of NASA applications when run on the IPG. In particular, we are investigating the areas of grid benchmarking, grid monitoring, user-level application scheduling, and decentralized system-level scheduling.

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  1. NAS Division, NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA

    Rupak Biswas & Michael Frumkin

  2. Computer Sciences Corp., NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA

    Warren Smith & Rob Van der Wijngaart

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), P.O. Box 19015, 76019-0015, Arlington, TX, USA

    Sajal K. Das

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, 700 032, Calcutta

    Swapan Bhattacharya

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Biswas, R., Frumkin, M., Smith, W., Van der Wijngaart, R. (2002). Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance. In: Das, S.K., Bhattacharya, S. (eds) Distributed Computing. IWDC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2571. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36385-8_5

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