Design Framework of Compute Power Market for Peer-to-Peer and Grid Environments

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and grid computing are concerned with pooling and coordinating resources across the internet. Similar issues arise in both, for example resource discovery, monitoring, resource management, communications and security. Resource management increases the utilization of resources and enables uniform access to a wide variety of resources over a network of computers. Market-based resource management incorporates the notion of resource trading by regulating the resource supply and demand with necessary charging. Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management on Internet-wide computational resources. It transforms computers connected across the internet into a computational market by renting the processing power, storage and special devices from idle resources (computers). In this paper, we present the design framework of CPM using P2P (specifically JXTA technology). In doing so we highlight the services that might be required if the same framework were to apply on the grid (using Globus technology). We have completed the development of CPM on P2P. We will test the suitability of the proposed framework in scheduling jobs using an image processing application. By comparing the services required in both environments it helps us to further understand how users can distribute their jobs to these two platforms transparently. Keywords: Peer-to-peer, grid computing resourc