A Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Bag-of-Task Applications in Auction-based Proportional Share Systems

Grid and peer-to-peer (P2P) network technologies enable aggregation of distributed resources for solving large-scale and computationally-intensive applications. These technologies are well-suited for Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications, because each application consists of many parallel and independent tasks. With multiple users competing for the same resources, the key challenge is to finish a user application within a specified deadline