Market mechanisms for trading grid resources

Costas Courcoubetis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Sergios Soursos, George D. Stamoulis

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Abstract

There has been recently an increasing interest in Grid services and economic-aware Grid systems both in the industry and the academia. In this paper we specify a market for hardware providers and consumers interested in leasing Grid resources for a time period. Our approach comprises a stock-market like mechanism that enables the trading of computational power on the basis of a spot and a futures market. The spot market comprises a pair of bid and ask queues. This grid market is more complicated than the standard spot/futures markets of storable commodities, because the computational service traded in our case comprises of resources that are perishable, and has both quantity and duration specified in terms of a time interval. This is an important feature of our market mechanism, complicating considerably the trading algorithms that we develop and assess in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGrid Economics and Business Models - 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Proceedings
Pages58-72
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, GECON 2008 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Duration: 26 Aug 200826 Aug 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5206 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, GECON 2008
Country/TerritorySpain
CityLas Palmas de Gran Canaria
Period26/08/0826/08/08

Keywords

  • Bid and ask
  • Futures
  • Grid market
  • Market mechanism
  • Spot

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