Scaling virtual organization clusters over a wide area network using the Kestrel workload management system
Lance Stout, Michael Fenn, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen · 2010
This paper presents the results of using the Kestrel workload management system to test operating a Virtual Organization Cluster (VOC) across multiple sites. A Many-Task Computing (MTC) framework based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Kestrel presents a special purpose scheduler that can offer better VOC scalability under certain workload assumptions, namely CPU bound processes and bag-of-tasks jobs.