Fine-grained mobility in the Emerald system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
Mobile agents and the future of the internet
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
CoG kits: a bridge between commodity distributed computing and high-performance grids
Proceedings of the ACM 2000 conference on Java Grande
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Arachne: A Portable Threads System Supporting Migrant Threads on Heterogeneous Network Farms
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
HORB: Distributed Execution of Java Programs
WWCA '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications
Sumatra: A Language for Resource-Aware Mobile Programs
MOS '96 Selected Presentations and Invited Papers Second International Workshop on Mobile Object Systems - Towards the Programmable Internet
GC Points in a Threaded Environment
GC Points in a Threaded Environment
A distributed object model for the javaTM system
COOTS'96 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS) - Volume 2
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A Grid Service-Based Active Thermochemical Table Framework
GRID '02 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Grid Computing
IC2D: Interactive Control and Debugging of Distribution
LSSC '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computing-Revised Papers
Interactive and Descriptor-Based Deployment of Object-Oriented Grid Applications
HPDC '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
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Previous research efforts for building thread migration systems have concentrated on the development of frameworks dealing with a small local environment controlled by a single user. Computational Grids provide the opportunity to utilize a large-scale environment controlled over different organizational boundaries. Using this class of large-scale computational resources as part of a thread migration system provides a significant challenge previously not addressed by this community. In this paper we present a framework that integrates Grid services to enhance the functionality of a thread migration system. To accommodate future Grid services, the design of the framework is both flexible and extensible. Currently, our thread migration system contains Grid services for authentication, registration, lookup, and automatic software installation. In the context of distributed applications executed on a Grid-based infrastructure, the asynchronous migration of an execution context can help solve problems such as remote execution, load balancing, and the development of mobile agents. Our prototype is based on the migration of Java threads, allowing asynchronous and heterogeneous migration of the execution context of the running code.