Title :
Dynamic load sharing within workstation clusters
Author :
Williams, Paul ; Togneri, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Dept. E&E Eng., Centre for Intelligent Processing, Nedlands, Australia
Abstract :
Workstation clusters, in which user processes run on one specified machine, cause the potential for a load imbalance. An analysis is conducted to determine how various system resources interact with one another in terms of job throughput and user interaction time. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of theoretical load sharing methods are used in the development of a well engineering system which is configurable, reliable and has a standard interface. Performance evaluation and system testing show very positive results
Keywords :
distributed processing; network operating systems; performance evaluation; resource allocation; supervisory programs; system monitoring; dynamic load sharing; job throughput; load imbalance; load sharing methods; performance evaluation; system testing; user interaction time; workstation clusters; Australia; Backpropagation algorithms; Condition monitoring; Floods; Intelligent systems; Machine intelligence; Reliability engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Throughput; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1995. ICAPP 95. IEEE First ICA/sup 3/PP., IEEE First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2018-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICAPP.1995.472295
