Abstract | The existence of good probabilistic models for the job
arrival process and the delay components introduced at
the different stages of job processing in a Grid
environment is important for the improved understanding
of the computing concept envisioned by the Grid. In this
study, we present a thorough analysis of the job arrival
process in the EGEE infrastructure and the time
durations a job spends at different states in the EGEE
environment. We define four delay components of the
total job delay and model each component separately.
We observe that the job inter-arrival times at the Grid
level can be adequately modeled by a rounded
exponential distribution, while the total job delay (from
the time it is generated until the time it completes
execution) is dominated by the Computing Element’s
queuing and Worker Node’s execution times. |