Distributed Computing using Mobile Agents

Mobile agents can be wandering around in a network using free resources for their own computations.

Examples

• Computers in a department are used to handle time consuming computations.
• Computers all around the internet provide a virtual supercomputer.
• Simulation of complex systems. Examples: Production lines, logistics, social, biological, economical and military problems.

• Supercomputers with nearly no costs even for smaller companies and organisations
• Ideal for scientific tasks. Compared to the SETI@home approach mobile agents are much more modern, because after the installation of an agent server the computer is ready for a lot of different tasks and new versions of the computation program

• Agents are not suitable for every kind of computation.
• The software must be specially written.