Title :
Finding idle machines in a workstation-based distributed system
Author :
Theimer, Marvin M. ; Lantz, Keith A.
Author_Institution :
IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
The design and performance of scheduling facilities for finding idle hosts in a workstation-based distributed system are described. The focus is on the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized architectures with respect to scalability, fault tolerance, and simplicity of design, as well as several implementation issues of interest when using multicast communication. It is concluded that the principal tradeoff between the two approaches is that a centralized architecture can be scaled to a significantly greater degree and can more easily monitor global system statistics, while a decentralized architecture is simpler to implement
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; performance evaluation; scheduling; workstations; centralised architectures; decentralized architectures; design; fault tolerance; idle hosts; multicast communication; performance; scalability; scheduling facilities; workstation-based distributed system; Computer architecture; Computerized monitoring; Condition monitoring; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Multicast communication; Scalability; Statistical distributions; System testing; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1988., 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0865-X
DOI :
10.1109/DCS.1988.12508
