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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 29-701
Full Name: Ric Herbert
Position: Senior Lecturer
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: University of Newastle, Ourimbah
Country: AUSTRALIA
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E-mail address: ric.herbert@newcastle.edu.au
Other E-mails: tim.lynar@newcastle.edu.au
Title of the Paper: Auction Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Grids of e-Waste Computers
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Timothy Lynar and Ric Herbert
Email addresses of all the authors: tim.lynar@newcastle.edu.au,ric.herbert@newcastle.edu.au
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: This paper examines economic resource allocation through a number of auction types for a grid of e-waste computers. It examines the time to complete tasks and the energy usage of completing the tasks on a grid. A model of a simulated grid is developed and used to evaluate the resource allocation mechanisms. The model is an agent-based simulation where by user agents submit tasks to node agents that process these tasks. We evaluate three types of resource-allocator agents which all use a type of auction. The auction types are batch auction, continuous double auction and a pre-processed batch auction. The pre-processed batch auction is developed to try to have the advantages of both the continuous double auction and the batch auction. The simulated grid is calibrated to a real e-waste grid where each node has a performance index. This grid is a test grid of eight nodes of heterogenous computer hardware and with differing computational ability and energy usage resulti!
ng in differing performance indexes. We simulate the auction types under the same task input streams. We consider a task impulse response stream on energy usage and time to complete all tasks and a input stream step response. Finally we consider the three auction allocation mechanisms under a random task stream. The paper finds that the choice of auction method makes a substantial difference in the time to complete tasks and in total energy consumption.
Keywords: grid computing, resource allocation, auctions, e-waste, energy consumption
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Special (Invited) Session: A Comparison of Economic Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Grids of e-Waste Computers
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