An Agent-Based Parallel Programming for Grid Programming
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineering
1 - Ferdosi University
Abstract :
Computational grids have provided the usage of computational distributed resources for computation-intensive applications. The development of programs that use these capabilities is one of the challenging issues for grid computing. In this article, an effort has been made in order to solve this problem by presenting mobile-agent-based parallel programming on the grid. The presentation of this model, which has been materialized by extending Alchemi™ grid infrastructure, adding agent properties and navigational commands that let the user to develop his/her program by using agents’ mobility and communication between them. In order to evaluate the system, algorithm of matrix multiplication as well as algorithm of finding the convex hull of a series of points have been implemented in the mentioned system.
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[11] K. Kennedy, Compilers, Languages, and Libraries, in The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, ed. by I. Foster and C. Kesselman, pp. 181-204, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
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[16] A. Villazón, A Reflective Architecture Applied to Mobile Code Environments, Ph.D. thesis, University of Geneva, Dec. 2001.
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