NaradaBrokering: A Distributed Middleware Framework and Architecture for Enabling Durable Peer-to-Peer Grids
Shrideep Pallickara, Geoffrey Fox · 2003
Abstract. A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Grid would comprise services that include those of Grids and P2P networks and naturally support environments that have features of both limiting cases. Such a P2P grid integrates the evolving ideas of computational grids, distributed objects, web services, P2P networks and message oriented middleware. In this paper we investigate the architecture, comprising a distributed brokering system that will support such a hybrid environment. Access to services can then be mediated either by the middleware or alternatively by direct P2P interactions between machines. The Grid [1-4] has made dramatic progress recently with impressive technology and several large important applications initiated in high-energy physics [5,6], earth science [7,8] and other areas [9,10]. At the same time, there have been equally impressive advances in broadly deployed Internet technology. We can cite the