Application Deployment on Catallactic Grid Middleware

An architecture based on a decentralized market view integrates grid applications with catallactic middleware. A prototype application showed the concept´s feasibility, as well as the middleware´s effectiveness in balancing query-request workload across multiple grid services. Grid computing researchers have shown significant interest in using an economic paradigm for exchanging grid resources and services. With this approach, applications can use a market mechanism to schedule services access, thus giving them a fair, efficient way to share resources in high-demand periods. Most existing approaches rely on centralized brokers to coordinate resource access, and they´re typically implemented over existing grid middleware. We propose an alternative approach based on F.A. Hayek´s Catallaxy mechanism. Catallaxy´s free-market, self-organizing coordination mechanisms adjust prices within the market based on the particular demands for a specific (scarce) resource