An objective comparison test of workload management systems

Grid resources are distributed among hundreds of independent grid sites, requiring a higher level Workload Management System (WMS) to be used efficiently. There are several ways to design and implement a WMS, and indeed in recent years several WMSes have been developed. The purpose of this paper is to show how some of these different WMS-es behave under realistic load conditions. We present benchmark test results for three general-purpose WMSes, namely ReSS, gLite WMS and glideinWMS. The results presented have been measured using the same tools for all the tested WMSes, comparing those results against a baseline obtained by using plain Condor-G submissions