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- From: schack@eureka.arc.ab.ca
- Subject: Information needed on load balancing in distributed systems.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.125824.10707@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eureka.arc.ab.ca
- Organization: Clemson University
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:38:00 -0600
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- I am involved in a project whose goal is to develop a system for
- scheduling batch and interactive jobs in a network of UNIX
- workstations. The goal is for users to be able to submit jobs and
- have our system decide the best place to run those jobs. The system
- should take into account factors like expected CPU usage of the job
- vs. power of the host, the location of the input and output files of
- the job vs. the server locations on the network, expected memory usage
- of the job vs. the memory and swap size on the host, etc. We do not
- have to deal with process migration - once jobs are assigned to a
- host, they stay there.
-
- I would like to know if there are systems out there which already
- solve this problem. Currently I have information about the Network
- Queueing System (Sterling Software) and Load Balancer (Freedman Sharp
- and Associates). NQS is public domain software, but unfortunately for
- our purposes it is not satisfactory because it only deals with
- queueing, not load balancing. Load Balancer performs most of the
- functions we want, but is a commercial product, which brings up other
- issues such as licensing, not to mention paying for the thing in the
- first place. :-)
-
- I currently have a reasonable set of papers dealing with load
- balancing, but would appreciate pointers to recent papers (1991 and
- on).
-
- Thanks in advance.
- Brian
-
- Brian Schack schack@arc.ab.ca
- Alberta Research Council
- Advanced Computing and Engineering Dept.
- Calgary, Alberta ph: (403) 297-7566
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