Dynamic load sharing within workstation clusters

Author

Williams, Paul ; Togneri, Roberto

Author_Institution

Dept. E&E Eng., Centre for Intelligent Processing, Nedlands, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

19-21 Apr 1995

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAPP.1995.472295

Filename

472295