Competitive P2P Scheduling of Users’ Jobs in Cloud

Existing distributed solutions for distributed computing (Grid, Cloud, etc.) pose a high threshold for potential customers. The reason deals with the technical background and effort that are usually required in order to successfully access the computing facilities, thus limiting their massive adoption. By exploiting the features offered by different distributed paradigms (P2P and Cloud), we propose here an approach that reverses the role of resource requestors and resource providers, allowing potential customers to access the distributed infrastructures in a user-friendly fashion. In the proposed scenario, the task of retrieving the user’s submitted jobs and configure accordingly the necessary resources is in charge of the providers, thus lowering the threshold required to successfully exploit the computing facilities. The experimental activities, described in the paper, validate the hypothesis that a competitive approach, in distributed scheduling environments, can decrease the threshold required to access the facilities and lead, if properly set up, to substantial performance gains. KeywordsP2P; cloud; competitive scheduling.