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- From: xander@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl (Xander Evers)
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- Subject: Re: Difference between DYNAMIC and ADAPTIVE load balancing???
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:30:27 GMT
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- news@paleolithic.Colorado.EDU (The Daily Planet) writes:
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- >Hi there. Subject says it all. I have seen many papers about dynamic and
- >adaptive load balancing, but I couldn't understand the difference.
- >Are these really two different categories in load balancing, or are these
- >two words used interchangeably in the literature. Please post your
- >response, so that other people can post their views about the responses.
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- The terms dynamic scheduling and adaptive scheduling are sometimes used
- in the literature in an inconsistent manner. A dynamic schedular takes
- into account the current state of affairs as it perceives it in the system.
- This is done during the normal operation of the system under a dynamic and
- unpredictable load.
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- An adaptive solution to the load balancing problem is one in which the
- algorithms and parameters used to implement the scheduling policy change
- dynamically according to the previous and current behavior of the system,
- in response to previous decisions made by the scheduling system. In contrast
- to an adaptive scheduler, a non-adaptive scheduler would be one which does
- not necessarily modify its basic control mechanism on the basis of the
- history of system activity.
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- In an adaptive system, the scheduling policy itself reflects changes in
- its environment--the running system. Whereas a dynamic solution takes
- environmental inputs into account when making decisions, an adaptive
- solution takes environmental stimuli into account to modify the scheduling
- policy itself. It is easy to see that it is impossible to have a static
- adaptive scheduler, there are only dynamic adaptive load balancing algorithms.
-
- Greetings,
-
- Xander Evers
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics
- P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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