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Service Level Agreements for Job Control in Grid and High-Performance Computing

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Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are electronic contracts that are used to describe service levels for a plethora of tasks and situations, regardless of them being consumed offline or online. SLAs are being investigated already for a long time in the area of grid computing and, as well, by classical High-Performance Computing (HPC) providers. Most often, these investigations are either only on a high logical level above or at the middleware or on a low physical level below the middleware. In the first case, components are at best placed in the middleware layer but are not directly communicating with lower level resources; in the second case, SLAs are only used below the middleware and are not visible above. This work presents an approach for a solution to job submission and scheduling, called job control, using SLAs as long-term contracts in an integrated fashion across layers.

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    For example, at the German high-performance computing centers in Jülich, Munich, and Stuttgart.

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    The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, as well as the infrastructure provided by the German grid initiative D-Grid is, for example, still using the Globus Toolkit version 4.0, although this has been superseded by version 4.2 in February 2008 and version 5.0 in January 2010.

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Kübert, R. (2011). Service Level Agreements for Job Control in Grid and High-Performance Computing. In: Preve, N. (eds) Grid Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-676-4_8

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