Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.766964
