NoHNES

Idle computers attached to local or wide-area network offer the opportunity of a huge amount of computing power to tap, if only there would be a way to use it predictably and fully. Overlay networks (such as P2P networks and application level networks) offer that possibility, but there are many issues to solve, such as network coherence, resource availability and fault tolerance of the applications running on them. In the NoHNES (Non-Hierarchical Network Evolutionary System) project we will approach those issues using bio-inspired (such as evolutionary, ant-colony and swarm) algorithms. We will also use the same kind of algorithms, which, through their adaptability and inherent parallelism, are a good choice for this kind of dynamic network architectures, and we will adapt them to run in it. Eventually, we will use them to solve several problems that require a high number of computation cycles.

See the NoHNES web page.

Partners

ITI - Universidad de Granada

(Principal Investigator: JJ Merelo)

Plan Nacional de I+D - Ref. TIN2007-68083-C02-02

Sept 2007 - Sept 2010