OGST (Opportunistic Grid Simulation Tool): uma ferramenta de simulação para avaliação de estratégias de escalonamento de aplicações em grades oportunistas.

Abstract

During the development of Grid middleware systems, researchers often employ simulation tools and techniques for validating new concepts and implementations. Simulation tools play a fundamental role on the development of Grid middleware systems since: (a) researchers often do not have access to huge Grid testbed environments, limiting the capacity for evaluating situations that demand high amount of resources; (b) it is difficult to explore in large scale application and resources scenarios involving several users in a repetitive and controlled way, due to the dynamic nature of Grid environments; (c) real Grid applications usually consume great amount of time, ranging from a few hours to even weeks. This work describes OGST, an object-oriented discrete event simulator whose main objective is to assist developers of opportunistic Grid middleware on validating new concepts and implementations. The preliminary motivation for OGST development was to provide a way for evaluating the behavior of scheduling algorithms commonly used on Grid environments under different execution environment conditions and the investigation of adaptive scheduling approaches. It was carefully designed to take into consideration the dynamics of opportunistic Grids, providing a set of features that hasten the development of simulations that takes into consideration the dynamism of the execution environment. The simulator was developed in the context of the InteGrade project, but was designed to allow the simulation of generic opportunistic Grids in order to be applied by other Grid middleware research projects.