Distributed Memory Load Balancing

Aaron Becker
Gengbin Zheng
Laxmikant Vasudeo Kale

Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing 2011

Pulication Type: Paper

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Abstract

Load balancing in distributed memory systems is the process of redistributing work between hardware resources to improve performance, typically by moving work from overloaded resources to underloaded resources.

Research Areas

Dynamic Load Balancing

Text Ref

Aaron Becker, Gengbin Zheng, and Laxmikant Kale, Distributed Memory Load Balancing, Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, David Padua, Ed., 2011 (to appear)

BibTex

@incollection{LoadBalanceEncyEntry11,
  author = "Aaron Becker and Gengbin Zheng and Laxmikant Kale",
  title = "{Distributed Memory Load Balancing}",
  booktitle = "Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing",
  publisher = "Springer Verlag",
  year = "2011",
  editor = "D. Padua",
}