DARDS: Dynamic Ants Resource Discovery System - An Approach to Resource Discovery in High Performance Grid Environment using Dynamic Ants

In high performance grid computing technology, compute and storage resources are shared and administrated by different organizations and/or teams in different locations across the world. In such scenarios, challenges will encounter in scaling the existing Grid Services like Discovery of resources due to distribution across geographies and availability of resources are not predictable. Administrating infrastructure of grid has an essential role in effectively managing and utilizing the grid computing technology capabilities.Resource discovery is an essential service that is required in any resource-sharing environments like Grid Computing. It is used to search information about resources available in the Grid network. This paper discusses about new Ant Agent solution called Dynamic Ants Resource Discovery System (DARDS) by using Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and Ants Systems technology for resource discovery. This solution is based on simple Ant agents that cooperate in the Grid environment to create the emergent behavior of the system. The proposed system is fully decentralized; therefore, it easily scales with the number of resources, and can work in environments with irregular resource participation.