Service agent-based resource management using virtualization for computational grid

The key purpose of computational grid is how to allocate grid resources to grid applications effectively. Existing resource management models with centralized architecture like GRAM and nimrod-G broker are liable to generate communication overheads and bottleneck. Therefore, we propose the service agent-based resource management model using virtualization for computational grid. Virtualization and agent-based system applied to our model is able to improve load imbalance of grid broker and reduce communication overheads. Experiment results demonstrate that the service agent-based resource management model decreases 25.8% more job latencies and 151.6% more communication messages than the centralized resource management model.