A Multi-agent Approach for P2P Based Resource Discovery in Grids

Grids are likely to be the mainstay of distributed computing. Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems. Peer-to-peer organization of Grid resource discovery services would have several desirable features, including high scalability, high reliability, self-organization and self-healing, we propose a multi-agent based peer-to-peer approach for resource discovery in grids which allows for an efficient search of resources by maximizing the benefit of the replication mechanism and facilitate the discovery operations. A simulation analysis has been performed to evaluate the performance of the approach.