The Organic Grid: Self-organizing computation on a peer-to-peer network (original) (raw)

2004

Abstract

Desktop grids have already been used to perform some of the largest computations in the world and have the potential to grow by several more orders of magnitude. However current approaches to utilizing desktop resources require either centralized servers or extensive knowledge of the underlying system, limiting their scalability. 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. In a radical departure from current models, we envision large scale desktop grids in which agents autonomically organize themselves so as to maximize resource utilization. We demonstrate this concept with a reduced scale proof-of-concept implementation that executes a data-intensive parameter sweep application on a set of heterogeneous geographically distributed machines. We present a detailed exploration of the design space of our system and a performance evalu...

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