Migration impact on load balancing - an experience on Amoeba
- Univ. of Queensland (Australia)
- Warsaw Univ. (Poland)
Load balancing has been extensive study by simulation, positive results were received in most of the researches. With the increase of the availability oftlistributed systems, a few experiments have been carried out on different systems. These experimental studies either depend on task initiation or task initiation plus task migration. In this paper, we present the results of an 0 study of load balancing using a centralizedpolicy to manage the load on a set of processors, which was carried out on an Amoeba system which consists of a set of 386s and linked by 10 Mbps Ethernet. The results on one hand indicate the necessity of a load balancing facility for a distributed system. On the other hand, the results question the impact of using process migration to increase system performance under the configuration used in our experiments.
- OSTI ID:
- 421395
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960835-; TRN: 96:006403-0058
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. IEEE international symposium on high-performance distributed computing, Syracuse, NY (United States), 6-9 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fifth IEEE international symposium on high performance distributed computing; PB: 664 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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