Combining the characteristics of peer-to-peer （P2P） and grid, a super-peer selection algorithm--SSABC is presented in the distributed network merging P2P and grid. The algorithm computes nodes capacities using their resource properties provided by a grid monitoring and discovery system, such as available bandwidth, free CPU and idle memory, as well as the number of current connections and online time. when a new node joins the network and the super-peers are all saturated, it should select a new super-peer from the new node or joined nodes with the highest capacity. By theoretical analyses and simulation experiments, it is shown that super-peers selected by capacity can achieve higher query success rates and shorten the average hop count when compared with super-peers selected randomly, and they can also balance the network load when all super-peers are saturated. When the number of total nodes changes, the conclusion is still valid, which explains that the algorithm SSABC is feasible and stable.
