Computer Science, Engineering and Control

Survey on distributed computing technologies

A. V. Shamakina

South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation)

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of distributed computing technologies from the perspective of the scheduling organization in grid and cloud environments. The architecture of the UNICORE platform, focused on ensuring a transparent secure access to resources of distributed computing environment, is considered. A general classification of scheduling algorithms in distributed computing environments and a classification of scheduling algorithms for independent tasks and jobs with dependencies between tasks are shown.

Keywords: distributed computing, problem-oriented distributed computing environments, Grid, UNICORE, scheduling algorithms, clustering algorithms, a directed acyclic graph, workflow.

UDC: 004.75, 519.172

Received: 05.08.2014