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The major aim of a Grid is to federate several powerful distributed resources within a single virtual entity which can be accessed transparently and efficiently by external users. As a Grid is a distributed and unreliable system involving heterogeneous resources located in different geographical domains, fault-tolerant resource allocation services have to be provided. In particular, when crashes occur, tasks have to be reallocated quickly and automatically, in a completely transparent way from the users’ point of view.
This paper presents Paradis, a system based on a Consensus building block that has been designed and implemented in a Grid dedicated to genomic applications. These time-consuming applications can be split up into a huge number of independent tasks which can be allocated independently on different domains.
This work was supported by the French Ministry of Research – Project GénoGRID of the program ACI “Globalization of computer resources and data”.
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Hurfin, M., Le Narzul, JP., Pley, J., Parvédy, P.R. (2004). A Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Resource Allocation in a Grid Dedicated to Genomic Applications. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_148
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