Advance Reservation based DAG Application Scheduling Simulator for Grid Environment

TL;DR

This paper introduces a user-friendly, ready-to-use DAG application scheduling simulator based on GridSim, supporting GUI configuration and validated with the Min-Min algorithm, simplifying Grid environment scheduling studies.

Contribution

It presents a novel, easy-to-use simulation tool for DAG scheduling in Grid environments, reducing effort and time compared to existing frameworks.

Findings

Supports DAG application and Grid resource configuration via GUI

Implements Min-Min static scheduling algorithm for validation

Provides a useful, easy, and time-saving simulation environment

Abstract

In the last decade, scheduling of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) application in the context of Grid environment has attracted attention of many researchers. However, deployment of Grid environment requires skills, efforts, budget, and time. Although various simulation toolkits or frameworks are available for simulating Grid environment, either they support different possible studies in Grid computing area or takes lot of efforts in molding them to make them suitable for scheduling of DAG application. In this paper, we describe design and implementation of GridSim based ready to use application scheduler for scheduling of DAG application in Grid environment. The proposed application scheduler supports supplying DAG application and configuration of Grid resources through GUI. We also describe implementation of Min-Min static scheduling algorithm for scheduling of DAG application to validate the proposed scheduler. Our proposed DAG application scheduling simulator is useful, easy, and time-saver.