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Towards an Agent enabled Gird environment

Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Le Dang Hung, Dao Tran Minh,

Nguyen Xuan Vinh, Le Thi PhuongHPCC - HUT

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Content

Globus Toolkit JADE Agent frameworks Integrating JADE Agents into

Globus based Grid environment Applications in HPCC-HUT Grid Conclusion and Future work

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Introduction about GC with Globus Toolkit

GC: enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed heterogeneous resources for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and commerce.

Globus Toolkit (GT): the leading open source toolkit used

today to build Grid environments.

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Introduction about GC with Globus Toolkit (cont) GT:

lets people share computing power, database, and other tools securely online across corporate, industrial, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.

includes software services and libraries for resource monitoring, discovery, and management, plus security, file management, data management, communication, and portability.

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JADE Agents framework

JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment frameworks): is a framework fully implemented in Java

language simplifies the implementation of multi-agent

systems through a middle-ware that complies with FIPA specifications and through a set of graphic tools that supports debugging and deployment phases.

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Integrating JADE Agents into Globus based Grid environment

The necessity The main difficulties Related work Our approach

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The necessity Resources in Grid environment:

heterogeneous geographically distributed dynamically changed

Agent technologies’ abilities: autonomy co-operate reaction migration

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The main difficultiesGlobus Toolkit To build a Grid

Service: extends class GridServiceBase or use operation providers

A Grid Service lives in Globus Grid Service container

JADE framework To build an Agent:

extends class Agent and setup some behaviors

An Agent lives in JADE platform

2 platforms use different standard formats of message

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The main difficulties (cont)

What is the solution that can ease the communication and interaction between objects living within these two separate environments?

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Related work

SoFAR project: considers an Agent as a service by

means of using Web service facilities to expose agent features

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Our approach - HAGS

We consider a Grid Service as an Agent and add Agent’s behaviors into the service

Hybrid Agent – Grid Service Core idea: writing a Grid Service

that extends the Agent class!!! Simple!!!

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HAGS – Design and Implementation

Preparation The HAGS The Auto Setup Agent Grid Service

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HAGS - Preparation

Copy six main libraries of JADE (jade.jar, iiop.jar, crimson.jar, http.jar Base64.jar, jadeTools.jar) into Globus Toolkit library directory ($GLOBUS_LOCATION/lib)

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HAGS Extends Agent class Agent Uses operation providers Grid Service Some important methods:

initialize(): create a non-main container and connect it to the default main container of JADE platform

setup() and takedown(): just setup code as for ordinary agents

preDestroy(): order the agent to delete itself

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HAGS - The Auto Setup Agent Grid Service

Automatically setup the whole JADE platform along with the grid service container

Can recognize when the grid service container is going to be shut down and automatically shut down the agent platform as well

is successfully implemented ready-to-use

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Applications in HPCC-HUT Grid

HPCC-HUT Grid Application: Weka The multi agent system as a grid

information service Agent as a resource manager Agent as a resource broker

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Conclusion and Future work

Results: Idea and technical details of completing

an HAGS system Successful implementation in BKGrid

2005 Drawbacks:

The agent communication hasn’t been really controlled yet security problems!!!

The overhead caused by the whole agent system to the grid environment

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Conclusion and Future work (cont)

Future work: Solve the drawbacks Experiment the HAGS system in

larger Grid environments

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Thank you very much!

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public void initialize(GridServiceBase base) throws GridServiceException {

this.base = base;AgentContainer ac = null;Runtime rt = Runtime.instance();// Create a default profileProfileImpl p = new ProfileImpl(false);try {

// Create a new non-main container, connecting to the

// default main container (i.e. on this host, port 1099)

ac = rt.createAgentContainer(p);// Create a new agentAgentController t2 =

ac.acceptNewAgent("Broker "+System.currentTimeMillis(),this);

// fire-up the agentt2.start();

} catch (Exception e2) {e2.printStackTrace();

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