Application-specific scheduling for the organic grid

We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a peer-to-peer network. Our approach achieves the following design objectives: near-zero knowledge of network topology, zero knowledge of system status, autonomous scheduling, distributed computation, lack of specialized nodes. Every node is equally responsible for scheduling and computation, both of which are performed with practically no information about the system. We believe that this model is ideally suited for large-scale unstructured grids such as desktop grids. This model avoids the extensive system knowledge requirements of traditional Grid scheduling approaches. Contrary to the popular master/worker organization of current desktop grids, our approach does not rely on specialized super-servers or on application-specific clients. By encapsulating computation and scheduling behavior into mobile agents, we...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLUSTER
• Authors: Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario Lauria
• Keywords: Autonomous Scheduling, CLUSTER 2004, Computation, Desktop Grids, Distributed And Parallel Computing