Nomadic Migration: Fault Tolerance in a Disruptive Grid Environment

Abstract

Nomadic Migration describes a technology, which provides an application with the ability to seek out and exploit remote computing resources by migrating tasks from site to site, dynamically adapting the application to a changing Grid environment. By automating the detection and usage of free resources in a global Grid, we achieve a significantly faster throughput than by manually interfacing with these resources. In this Paper we discuss the Peer-To-Peer strategy as an approach to provide a fault tolerant service infrastructure, required for a stable Grid Migration Service in an intrinsically disruptive Grid environment. The migration technology presented here is e.g. used with large-scale, Cactus based HPC simulations.