Management of Distributed Systems

Due to the inherent complexity and size of today's distributed systems the control and management of such infrastructures is a challenge for administrators and developers. Management tools such as ASGARD allow to control and manage distributed systems in real time, using advanced 3D views that purvey relevant information without overloading the user, and allows structural views of running systems.

One example of the practical application of management is load balancing. Distributed multi-agent systems pose new challenges for load balancing. Other than traditional job-based approaches, software agents tend to run for long times, with very different load behavior. This renders traditional approaches for load balancing during startup more or less useless. The CC ACT develops new approaches to allow load balancing of running agents and their processes.