A scalable and robust framework for distributed applications

Abstract

This paper describes a novel tool for running distributed experiments on the Internet. The possible applications include simple load balancing, parallel evolutionary computation, agent-based simulation and artificial life. Our environment is based on cutting-edge peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. We demonstrate the potentials of the framework by analyzing a simple distributed multistart hillclimber application. We present theoretical and empirical evidence that our approach is scalable, effective and robust.