AgentSphereにおけるAgentPoolの実現とMaster/Slave型並列APIの作成

Abstract

AgentSphere has been developed as an autonomous application framework for the heterogeneous parallel and distributed processing environment. AgentSphere runs on each machine, and provides a work field to mobile agents. As both AgentSpere and mobile agent are written in Java, there is a multithreading overhead problem in the case that application with very high parallelism is distributed onto fewer physical processing elements. So JavaVM has introduced Concurrent Utilities and ThreadPool for this problem, but they can work on only one JavaVM. In our research, we have developed AgentPool, which is similar to ThreadPool but available on multiple JavaVMs. We also report results of parallel processing of solving NQueens problem to show the performance of Agentpool.