Simulating and optimizing a peer-to-peer computing framework

The aim of P2P computing is to build virtual computing systems dedicated to large-scale computational problems. JXTA (JuXTApose) proposes an underlying infrastructure on which JNGI (Jerome, Neelakanth, Greg, and Ilya: first names of the creators), one of the first P2P decentralized computing frameworks is built. In order to test this framework, we have built a tool named P2PPerf which allows us to study the behavior of JNGI and to optimize it according to our simulation results.

1. Introduction

Designing, testing and tuning P2P computing frameworks are three difficult tasks and there are many reasons for this.