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

Author

Rotithor, H.G.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1991

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

226

Abstract

Current trends in performance measurement on distributed computers are briefly reviewed. An example of application level performance measurement on a distributed computing system using software based instrumentation techniques 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 described, simplicity and flexibility provided by software-based instrumentation are demonstrated, and the limitations are discussed. The instrumentation subsystem, tradeoffs involved, design choices, and quantitative results obtained from the implementation on an experimental distributed computing system consisting of VAX stations connected by a local area network are discussed

Keywords

distributed processing; performance evaluation; VAX stations; decentralized adaptive task sharing algorithm; distributed computing; embedded software instrumentation; experimental distributed computing system; local area network; performance measurement; task sharing performance; Application software; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Hardware; Instruments; Performance analysis; Resource management; Sampling methods; Software measurement; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1991. IMTC-91. Conference Record., 8th IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-87942-579-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1991.161580

Filename

161580