Kevin Lai,
Bernardo A. Huberman,
Leslie R. Fine
HP Laboratories
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Abstract
P2P clusters like the Grid and PlanetLab
enable in principle the same statistical multiplexing
efficiency gains for computing as the Internet provides for
networking. The key unsolved problem is resource allocation.
Existing solutions are not economically efficient and require
high latency to acquire resources. We designed and implemented
Tycoon, a market based distributed resource allocation system
based on an Auction Share scheduling algorithm. Preliminary
results show that Tycoon achieves low latency and high
fairness while providing incentives for truth-telling on the
part of strategic users.
Tycoon Website
Full paper: tycoon.pdf
For a very brief overview of Tycoon and a glimpse of the user interface, see the Tycoon PPT slides
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