Embedded instrumentation for evaluating task sharing performance in a distributed computing system

Author

Rotithor, Hemant G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

Volume

41

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

321

Abstract

An example of application-level performance measurement on a distributed computing system using software-based instrumentation is considered. Embedded software instrumentation for measuring the performance of a decentralized adaptive task-sharing algorithm in a distributed computing system is described. For the application considered, the simplicity and flexibility provided by software-based instrumentation are demonstrated, and its limitations are discussed. Quantitative results obtained from the implementation on an experimental distributed computing system consisting of VAX stations connected by a local area network are presented

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; distributed processing; performance evaluation; VAX; application-level performance measurement; decentralized adaptive task-sharing algorithm; distributed computing system; embedded instrumentation; local area network; software-based instrumentation; task sharing performance; Application software; Delay; Distributed computing; Embedded software; Event detection; Hardware; Instruments; Sampling methods; Software measurement; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/19.137368

Filename

137368