A super-peer model for resource discovery services in large-scale grids

  • Authors:
  • Carlo Mastroianni;Domenico Talia;Oreste Verta

  • Affiliations:
  • ICAR-CNR Rende (CS), Italy;DEIS University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy;DEIS University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

As deployed Grids increase from tens to thousands of nodes, peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques and protocols can be used to implement scalable services and applications. The super-peer model is a novel approach that helps the convergence of P2P models and Grid environments and can be used to deploy a P2P information service in Grids. A super-peer serves a single physical organization in a Grid, and manages metadata associated to the resources provided by the nodes of that organization. Super-peers connect to each other to form a peer network at a higher level. This paper examines how the super-peer model can handle membership management and resource discovery services in a multi-organizational Grid. A simulation analysis evaluates the performance of a resource discovery protocol; simulation results can be used to tune protocol parameters in order to increase search efficiency.