Load distribution and balancing support in a workstation-based distributed system
D. Arredondo, Marcelo Luis Errecalde, Fabiana Piccoli, Marcela Printista, Raúl Héctor Gallard, Samuel E Matos Flores · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1997
In distributed systems, load distribution and balancing are primary functions addressed to improvements on system performance and additional user comfort. Incoming task allocation and remote process execution are main responsibilities of a well designed system to achieve such performance improvements. Both aspects involve a number of non trivial tasks.As a basement for further automatic system decision in a distributed environment, this paper propose a user-supervised processor allocation scheduler, shows which information should be collected and when and how to collect and disseminate it to support the user decision.The main problems to be considered when implementing remote process execution are discussed and a design for an alternative system attempting to solve these problems is also shown.