Agent-based Resource Management for Grid Computing

ISBN: 3639369459

Author: Cao, Junwei

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A computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capability. An ideal grid environment should provide access to the available resources in a seamless manner. Resource management is an important infrastructural component of a grid computing environment. The overall aim of resource management is to efficiently schedule applications that need to utilise the available resources in the grid environment. In this work, an A4 (Agile Architecture and Autonomous Agents) methodology is introduced for the development of large-scale distributed software systems with highly dynamic behaviours. An agent is considered to be both a service provider and a service requestor. Agents are organised into a hierarchy with service advertisement and discovery capabilities. An Agent-based Resource Management System (ARMS) is implemented for grid computing, based on an existing application performance prediction toolkit PACE. Experimental results show that better load balancing can be achieved among multiple grid resources.