Enabling Peer-to-Peer Interactions for Scientific Applications on the Grid

P2P and Grid communities are actively working on deploying and standardizing infrastructure, protocols, and mechanisms, to support decentralized interactions across distributed resources. Such an infrastructure will enable new classes of applications based on continuous, seamless and secure interactions, where the application components, Grid services, resources and data interact as peers. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a peer-to-peer messaging framework that builds on the JXTA protocols to support the interaction and associated messaging semantics required by these applications.