Virtual resources allocation on Aladdin/Grid’5000 infrastructure through the HIPerNet middleware

Cloud computing infrastructures are providing resources on demand. Determining the amount of resources to allocate for a given application run is a difficult problem though. This paper introduces and compares four automated resource allocation strategies relying on the expertise that can be captured in workflow-based applications. The evaluation of these strategies was carried out on the Aladdin/Grid’5000 testbed using the HIPerNET middleware. Experimental results show that optimized allocation can help finding a trade-off between amount of resources consumed and application makespan. I