Applicability of Mobile Agents in Computational Grids

This is a report investigating the suitability of mobile agents to exploit computational resources in heterogenous networks. As a first draft it is not intended to provide a final result. A differentiated view over existing solutions to provide heterogenous computing with nodes in the network is made. Although the agent paradigm for designing complex systems and for the use in grids is acknowledged, this paper shows the limitations to effectively use itinerant agents in such environments. A brief discussion about the problems in the domain of parallel computation in grids is undertaken to gain a common understanding and definition.