The ISQoS Grid Broker for Temporal and Budget Guarantees

We introduce our Grid broker that uses SLAs in job submission with the aim of ensuring jobs are computed on time and on budget. We demonstrate our broker's ability to perform negotiation and to select preferentially higher priority jobs, in a tender market and discuss the architecture that makes this possible. We additionally show the effects of rescheduling and how careful consideration is required in order to avoid price instability. We therefore make recommendations upon how to maintain this stability, given rescheduling