Section: Application Domains

New Services for Scheduling on Large-Scale Platforms

As mentioned in Section  2.1 , solutions provided by the parallel algorithm community are dedicated to stable platforms whose resource performances can be gathered at a single node that is responsible for computing the optimal solution. On the other hand, P2P systems are fully distributed but the set of available queries in these systems is much too poor for computationally intensive applications. Therefore, actual solutions for large scale distributed platforms such as BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ ), WCG (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ ) or XTremWeb mostly rely on a client-server model, where no direct communication between peers is allowed. The objective of our project is to extend the application field that can be executed on large scale distributed platforms, by providing, for example, tools for:

• Requests and Task scheduling on large scale platforms;

• New services for processing on large scale platforms.