Migration Transparency in a Mobile Agent Based Computational Grid

In recent years, Grid computing has emerged as a promising alternative to increase the capacity of processing and storage, through integration and sharing of multi-institutional resources. MAG (Mobile Agents for Grid Computing Environments)is a research project that explores the mobile agent paradigm as a way to overcome the design and implementation challenges of developing a Grid middleware. MAG executes Grid applications by dynamically loading the application code into a mobile agent. The MAG agent can be dynamically reallocated to Grid nodes though a transparent migration mechanism, as a way to provide load balancing and support for non-dedicated nodes. This paper describes MAG transparent migration mechanism implementation and performance evaluation. Key-Words: distributed computing, grid computing, mobile agents, agent systems, migration, transparent mobility