User Centric Job Management In Grid Using Multiple Agents An Unified Approach

Abstract

It has always been accepted that a community of HPC users requires interactive, on demand access to HPC resources. Grid middleware technologies have been aimed at the execution of the sequential batch jobs which is a dominating paradigm, while lacking support for interactive applications. The reason is that grid middleware was developed for compute intensive jobs, which may run for a long time before a result becomes available, which may sometimes leads to unattended execution of jobs. To extend this application domain by providing interactivity support to the users, Agent based technology is used. The research work which is explored and partially implemented considers various aspects of interactive job management in the grid environment. a) : This paper explores the specific nature of scheduling the grid based interactive jobs which is closely analyzed and reveals the complex approach adopted by intelligent and multiagent technology.