Kecskemeti, G, Ostermann, S and Prodan, R (2014) Fostering energy-awareness in simulations behind scientific workflow management systems. In: Proceedings - 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014 . pp. 29-38. (2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014, 8-11th December 2014).

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Abstract

© 2014 IEEE.Scientific workflow management systems face a new challenge in the era of cloud computing. The past availability of rich information regarding the state of the used infrastructures is gone. Thus, organising virtual infrastructures so that they not only support the workflow being executed, but also optimise for several service level objectives (e.g., Maximum energy consumption limit, cost, reliability, availability) become dependent on good infrastructure modelling and prediction techniques. While simulators have been successfully used in the past to aid research on such workflow management systems, the currently available cloud related simulation toolkits suffer form several issues (e.g., Scalability, narrow scope) that hinder their applicability. To address this need, this paper introduces techniques for unifying two existing simulation toolkits by first analysing the problems with the current simulators, and then by illustrating the problems faced by workflow systems through the example of the ASKALON environment. Finally, we show how the unification of the selected simulators improve on the the discussed problems.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Computer Science & Mathematics
Publisher:	IEEE
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2016 11:27
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2022 15:14
DOI or ID number:	10.1109/UCC.2014.11
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3988

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