NodeWiz: Peer-to-peer Resource Discovery for Grids

Sujoy Basu
basus@hpl.hp.com
Sujata Banerjee
sujata@hpl.hp.com
Puneet Sharma
puneet@hpl.hp.com
Sung-Ju Lee
sjlee@hpl.hp.com

Mobile & Media Systems Lab, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA

Abstract

Efficient resource discovery based on dynamic attributes such as CPU utilization and available bandwidth is a crucial problem in the deployment of computing grids. Existing solutions are either centralized or unable to answer advanced resource queries (e.g., range queries) efficiently. We present the design of NodeWiz, a Grid Information Service (GIS) that allows multi-attribute range queries to be performed efficiently in a distributed manner. This is obtained by aggregating the directory services of individual organizations in a peer-to-peer information service.

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