Title :
Embedded instrumentation for evaluation task sharing performance in a distributed computing system
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1991. IMTC-91. Conference Record., 8th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-579-2
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1991.161580
