Abstract
The inevitable move from a single large scale server to a distributed Grid
environment is beginning to be realized across international Grid test-bed like
Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA). Although jobs
submitted to a single large server have been widely analyzed, job
characteristics in a Grid environment are different as we found in our analysis
of jobs submitted in the PRAGMA Grid test-bed. This paper reports on the
analysis of jobs submitted across the PRAGMA Grid test-bed. The job types are
categorized and the runtime of jobs is captured, using the Multi-Organization
Grid Accounting System (MOGAS), and analyzed. The number of jobs submitted
across organizations, indicating the level of resource sharing among
participants, is also captured by the system