Distributed hierarchical workstation cluster co-ordination scheme

Author

Abawajy, J.H. ; Dandamudi, S.P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

115

Abstract

When a set of geographically distributed autonomous clusters of workstations are combined into a single large-scale virtual distributed system, a control mechanism for coordinating the activities of the combined system for effective utilisation of the resources is indispensable. This paper presents a co-ordination mechanism suitable for scheduling and distributing services across the host of such large-scale virtual distributed systems. The proposed scheme is scalable and reliable. Also, it combines both centralised and decentralised co-ordination mechanisms while eliminating/minimising their drawbacks

Keywords

processor scheduling; workstation clusters; co-ordination mechanisms; distributed autonomous clusters of workstations; distributing services; hierarchical workstation cluster; scheduling; virtual distributed system; virtual distributed systems; Computer science; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Large-scale systems; Local area networks; Resource management; Scheduling; Wide area networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0759-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2000.873612

Filename

873612