Rajkumar Buyya's Doctoral Thesis: Economic

Economic-based Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing
Rajkumar Buyya
Ph.D Thesis
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
April 12, 2002
Thesis Contents:
Title PageTable of ContentsAbstractAcknowledgementsThesis Opening : Table of Contents, Abstract, etc.Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Grid Technologies and Resource Management SystemsChapter 3: Service-Oriented Grid Architecture for Distributed Computational EconomiesChapter 4: The Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker and Economic Scheduling AlgorithmsChapter 5: GridSim: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Grid Resource Management and SchedulingChapter 6: Scheduling SimulationsChapter 7: The Virtual Laboratory: Enabling Drug Design on the GridChapter 8: Conclusions and Future DirectionsAppendixBibliography
Entire Thesis:
A ZIP file containing thesis.pdfe-Print archive (it has many mirror sites)
Software Prototypes/Demonstrators
Nimrod-G Grid Resource BrokerGridSimVirtual Laboratory
Examiners Reports - well, it took 9 months to get them!
Snapshot of Report 1Snapshot of Report 2
Two Public Reviews
Tools automate computer sharing, By Ted Smalley Bowen, Technology Research News, September 12, 2001Toolset teams computers to design drugs, By Ted Smalley Bowen, Technology Research News, USA. January 16, 2002.
Next Generation Research/Commercial Leads
Appears many -- given that we often hear in the press about grid computing and related notions such as utility computing, on demand computing, service-oriented computing demonstrated in this thesis! My own follow-up research is carried out through theGridbus project European Commission (EC)'s Grid Research 2005 - 2010 Agenda:Next Generation Grids is another high profile effort that recoginses the importance of Grid Economy and started initiatives that advance it.
Bibliographic Entry:
Rajkumar Buyya,"Economic-based Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling for Grid Computing", PhD Thesis, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, April 12, 2002. Online at: http://www.buyya.com/thesis/thesis.pdf
Keywords: Grid Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture, Resource Management, Deadline and Budget Constrained Scheduling, and Quality of Services (QoS).Contact
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