I am a member of the MILAN https://www.cs.nyu.edu/milan/ group at NYU. Our group is building metacomputing environments that emulate reliable virtual machines on networks of non-dedicated, unpredictable machines.

Presently I and some other members of the group work on Decentralized Resource Allocation schemes and Market-based control policies in large distributed environments. I am implementing a Universal Distributed Allocating Service. My development platform is Windows NT. My system is Java-based so that the system is portable and capable of functioning in heterogeneous environments. It combines a persistent, scalable name service with allocating mechanisms. The nature of the name service allows it to be used for building fault-tolerant allocation systems. The allocation system is universal so it can be used to schedule any resources and any allocation policy can be accomodated by the system.

Once the system is ready it will be employed to study computation markets. Such systems have the potential to be more adaptive and efficient than the classic ones. We are also working on incorporating QoS in our Decentralized Resource Allocating system that would be able to utilize all reliable and not reliable resources effectively while attempting to optimize binding of resourses to tasks. The Decentralized Resource Allocation will allow several competing distributed computations to effectively coexist in a network environment.

Leonid Zheleznyak
Ph.D. student
Department of Computer Science
https://cs.nyu.edu/ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
https://cims.nyu.edu/ New York University

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