A LOW-ENERGY-CONSUMPTION SCHEDULING METHOD FOR CLOUD WORKFLOWS BASED ON COMBINED ALLOCATION
Existing cloud workflow scheduling methods often rarely strike an effective balance between reducing execution energy consumption and shortening completion time.To this end,this paper proposes a workflow low-energy scheduling method based on combined allocation.On the basis of considering the workflow structure,several related tasks were combined into task strings that could be uniformly assigned to the same server,and each task string was optimally scheduled to as few servers as possible.The available time slots of each server were calculated,and based on DVFS technology the task was slack.Relevant examples and simulation experiments verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheduling method.For two types of inputs of the classic scientific workflow and the randomly generated workflow,the comparative data show that the method can effectively reduce the execution energy consumption while shortening the completion time of the workflow.