Strong Migration in a Grid based on Mobile Agents

Grid computing has emerged as a promising alternative to increase the capacity of processing and storage. It is an aggregation of dynamic, heterogeneous, and widely distributed resources, shared among different institutions. In order to provide load balancing and support for non-dedicated machines, the Grid middleware must be able to move computations among its nodes. This paper describes a transparent migration mechanism in the context of MAG, a mobile agent based Grid middleware. It discuss the use of process migration in Grid infra-structures and details MAG migration framework implementation and performance evaluation. Key-Words: distributed computing, grid computing, mobile agents, agent systems, migration, transparent mobility