Peer-to-peer-based resource discovery In global grids: A tutorial

Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resource discovery activity involve searching for the appropriate resource types that match the user's application requirements. Various kinds of solutions to grid resource discovery have been suggested, including the centralised and hierarchical information server approach. However, both of these approaches have serious limitations in regards to scalability, fault-tolerance and network congestion. To overcome these limitations, indexing resource information using a decentralised (such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P)) network model has been actively proposed in the past few years. This article investigates various decentralised resource discovery techniques primarily driven by P2P network model. To summarise, this article presents a: (i) summary of current state of art in grid resource discovery; (ii) resource taxonomy wi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: COMSUR
• Authors: Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya
• Keywords: COMSUR 2008, Grid, Grid Resource, Resource Discovery