Tcl and the Tk toolkit
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
Process Interconnection Structures in Dynamically Changing Topologies
HiPC '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing
The Architecture of the Ara Platform for Mobile Agents
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Adapting to Load on Workstation Clusters
FRONTIERS '99 Proceedings of the The 7th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Mobile Agents - The Right Vehicle for Distributed Sequential Computing
HiPC '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing
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Mobile agents are a powerful tool for coordinating general purpose distributed computing, where the main goal is high performance. In this paper we demonstrate how the inherent mobility of agents may be exploited to achieve fast file access, which is necessary for most general-purpose applications. We present a file system for mobile agents based exclusively on local disks of the participating workstations. The mobility of agents allows us to make all file operations local, which significantly reduces access time. We also demonstrate how code files and special system files can be handled efficiently in a localdisk-based environment.