Jalapeno - Decentralized Grid Computing Using Peer-to-Peer Technology
Paper in proceeding, 2005

This paper presents the Jalapeno grid computing system. Jalapeno is implemented in Java and uses peer-to-peer technology provided by Project JXTA. The Jalapeno system consists of manager, worker and task submitter hosts. The task submitter submits a collection of tasks, a task bundle, to be processed by the system to a randomly chosen manager. The manager splits the bundle into a set of new, smaller bundles which are forwarded to equally many, randomly chosen, managers which repeat the process. Each manager has a small number of connected workers. During task bundle splitting the manager may, depending on its current load, reserve a number of tasks for its workers. Workers return the results to their managers which forward them to the task submitter. The system is self configuring: hosts volunteering their computing power will at first become workers only but will eventually become managers if they can not connect to another manager within a certain time. The major contributions of this project are: an implicit hierarchy of hosts which changes randomly over time and requires no effort to maintain, a framework for applications solving embarrassingly parallel type of problems which automatically partitions the problem into smaller sub-problems and ease of use through the use of Sun’s Java Web Start technology. Two applications have been developed for the system to evaluate its performance: an RC5 key cracking application and a 3d raytracing application. The entire system is available for download at http://jalapeno.therning.org.

P2P architecture

Grid computing

distributed computing

Author

Niklas Therning

Lars Bengtsson

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

2005 ACM Computing Frontiers Conference

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

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10/7/2017