Hector: an agent based architecture for dynamic resource management

Author

Russ, Samuel H. ; Reece, Katina ; Robinson, Jonathan ; Meyers, Brad ; Rajan, Rajesh ; Rajagopalan, Laxman ; Tan, Chun-Heong

Author_Institution

NSF Eng. Res. Center for Comput. Field Simulation, Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

1999

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

55

Abstract

The authors present the Hector distributed runtime environment, in which “slave allocators” forward commands from the central allocation system, monitor system availability and loading, and can transparently extract detailed performance information from programs as they run. The authors detail the overall architecture of the agent-based allocation system and demonstrate its efficiency, low overhead, and utility

Keywords

distributed processing; resource allocation; software agents; software architecture; software performance evaluation; system monitoring; Hector; agent based architecture; agent-based allocation system; distributed runtime environment; dynamic resource management; slave allocators; software performance; system availability; system monitor; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Condition monitoring; Programming profession; Resource management; Runtime environment; Sockets; Workstations; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Concurrency, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1092-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4434.766964

Filename

766964