Migration transparency in a mobile agent based computational grid

  • Authors:

  • Rafael Fernandes Lopes;Francisco José Da Silva E Silva

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Informática, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, CCET, São Luís, MA, Brazil;Departamento de Informática, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, CCET, São Luís, MA, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • SMO'05 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Simulation, modelling and optimization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In recent years, Grid computing has emerged as a promising alternative to increase the capacity of processing and storage, through integration and sharing of multi-institutional resources. MAG (Mobile Agents for Grid Computing Environments) is a research project that explores the mobile agent paradigm as a way to overcome the design and implementation challenges of developing a Grid middleware. MAG executes Grid applications by dynamically loading the application code into a mobile agent. The MAG agent can be dynamically reallocated to Grid nodes though a transparent migration mechanism, as a way to provide load balancing and support for non-dedicated nodes. This paper describes MAG transparent migration mechanism implementation and performance evaluation.