Apply agent to build grid service management

This paper presents an Agent-based Grid Service Management, which applies the concept of agents to computational grid. All entities in the Grid environment including computing resources and services can be represented as agents. Each entity is registered with a Grid Service Manager. A Grid service can be a service agent that provides the actual grid service to the other grid member. Grid members communicate with each other by communication space that is an implementation of tuple space. The design of three grid protocols for grid resource management is given. They are Grid Service Discovery Protocol, Grid Service Subscription Protocol and Grid Service Access Protocol. Grid service Subscription Protocol allows user/requestor agents to dynamically subscribe some grid services for a finite time period. A grid service can be subscribed before it can be configured or used by the user/requestor agent. A basic performance evaluation is given. Finally, some conclusions are given.

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