Ja-Net on grid for adaptive resource distribution in grid environment

We propose a mobile agent system called Ja-Net on grid by which to simplify parallel application development in a grid environment. The Ja-Net on grid system is built on the Ja-Net architecture and enables application programmers to write programs that run efficiently in a grid environment by agents doing collaborative activities among agents based on the idia of relationships. The Ja-Net on grid system employs the grid security infrastructure, which is based on X.509 certificates and is included in the Globus Toolkit, to achieve single sign-on and secure access to confidential information. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the Ja-Net on grid system, and verify the effectiveness thereof by demonstrating better resource distribution with respect to the conventional master-worker-based task distribution methods.