Performance analysis of firefly algorithm in peer-to-peer grid

Grid computing has emerged as a solution for handling the everyday increasing data usage and computation on the Internet by sharing the load among different nodes in it. The main challenge of grid computing is handling of node failures. Vishwa is a two-layered peer-to-peer network for handling the failures by reconfiguring the application. In this article, the performance of Vishwa grid in virtual machines and ordinary computers is compared. The proposed method uses virtual machines as nodes of grid rather than physical systems, which reduces not only the hardware cost incurred in setting up and connecting individual systems, but also the communication delay between nodes and zonal server in the grid. Three models are proposed for forming grid in virtual environment that uses Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation. The performances of the models have been evaluated by running firefly algorithm, using Ramanujan number, and finding the square of numbers in virtual machines and physical systems separately.