Adapting to Load on Workstation Clusters

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation 1999

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Abstract

Desktop workstations represent a largely untapped source of computational power for parallel computing. Two of the main problems in utilizing these workstations are developing strategies for migrating load so that partially loaded workstations can contribute CPU cycles to the computations, and making dynamically migratable application programs easy to write. This paper describes object arrays, a construct which makes dynamically migratable applications easier to write, and a simple strategy for migrating load on a workstation cluster.

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Text Ref

Robert K. Brunner and Laxmikant V. Kale, "Adapting to Load on Workstation 
Clusters", The Seventh Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel 
Computation, Publ: IEEE Computer Society Press, February 1999, pp. 106--112.

BibTex

@InProceedings{AdaptLBSFMPC99,
  author =       "Robert K. Brunner and Laxmikant V. Kal\'e",
  title =        "Adapting to Load on Workstation Clusters",
  pages =        "106--112",
  booktitle =    "The Seventh Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively
                  Parallel Computation",
  year =         1999,
  publisher =    "IEEE Computer Society Press",
  month =        "February"
}