Performance comparison of process migration with remote process creation mechanisms in RHODOS

Author

De Paoli, D. ; Goscinski, A. ; Hobbs, M. ; Joyce, P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math., Deakin Univ., Geelong, Vic., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

27-30 May 1996

Firstpage

554

Lastpage

561

Abstract

We claim that both remote process creation and process migration are efficient mechanisms to be used in the improvement or development of high performance computer systems. In particular we demonstrate that the claims made by some researchers that process migration is too heavy to be used to support dynamic load balancing are unsubstantiated. We support our claim by presenting these two mechanisms available in the RHODOS distributed operating system, comparing and contrasting these mechanisms and reporting on their performance

Keywords

distributed processing; network operating systems; operating systems (computers); processor scheduling; remote procedure calls; resource allocation; RHODOS distributed operating system; dynamic load balancing; high performance computer systems; process migration; remote process creation mechanisms; Australia; Computer networks; Costs; Dynamic scheduling; High performance computing; Load management; Mathematics; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7399-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1996.508005

Filename

508005