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DHPC Technical Report DHPC-102

Modelling a Gossip Protocol For Resource Discovery in Distributed Systems

K.A.Hawick and H.A.James

Archived: 22 May 2001

Published in Proc. Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2001), Las Vegas, USA, June 2001.

Abstract

We present a preliminary model for discussion of resource discovery and tracking in a computational grid middleware environment. We introduce our ``gossip'' mechanism for resource discovery information interchange between cooperating nodes and consider the percolation problem posed by a global graph of independent resource providers on the grid. The main issue is to minimise the cached storage information at each node in the system while still maintaining full connectedness of the global graph.

Keywords: resource discovery; global graph; gossip; percolation.

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