Paper Info
Title
AgentTeamwork: Coordinating grid-computing jobs with mobile agents
Abstract
AgentTeamwork is a grid-computing middleware system that dispatches a collection of mobile agents to coordinate a user job over remote computing nodes in a decentralized manner. Its utmost focus is to maintain high availability and dynamic balancing of distributed computing resources to a parallel-computing job. For this purpose, a mobile agent is assigned to each process engaged in the same job, monitors its execution at a different machine, takes its periodical execution snapshot, moves it to a lighter-loaded machine, and resumes it from the latest snapshot upon an accidental crash. The system also restores broken inter-process communication involved in the same job using its error-recoverable socket and mpiJava libraries in collaboration among mobile agents.We have implemented the first version of our middleware including a mobile agent execution platform, error-recoverable socket and mpiJava API libraries, a job wrapper program, and several types of mobile agents such as commander, resource, sentinel, and bookkeeper agents, each orchestrating, allocating resources to, monitoring and maintaining snapshots of a user process respectively. This paper presents AgentTeamwork's execution model, its implementation techniques, and our performance evaluation using the Java Grande benchmark test programs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/s10489-006-9653-6
Appl. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Grid computing,Middleware design,Mobile agents,Process migration,Fault tolerance
Middleware,Mobile computing,Grid computing,Computer science,Mobile agent,Process migration,Artificial intelligence,Distributed computing,Execution model,Java,High availability,Operating system,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
2
0924-669X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.77
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Munehiro Fukuda117627.88
Koichi Kashiwagi2151.11
Shinya Kobayashi3151.11