Nimrod is a tool for the parametrization of serial programs to create and execute

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programs over a

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. It is a co-allocating, scheduling and brokering service. Nimrod was one of the first tools to make use of heterogeneous resources in a grid for a single computation. It was also an early example of using a

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to perform grid scheduling. This enables Nimrod to provide a guaranteed completion time despite using best-effort services. The tool was created as a research project funded by the

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. The principal investigator is Professor David Abramson of

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References

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External links

''Nimrod Toolkit''
the official Nimrod project page at Monash eScience and Grid Engineering Laboratory (MeSsAGE Lab)
''Nimrod: Tools for Distributed Parametric Modelling''
the former Nimrod project page at

, via

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. Archived 22 July 2008. Grid computing products