Title :
Scheduling strategies for multitasking in a distributed system
Author :
Karatza, Helen D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
We study various policies for scheduling tasks in distributed processor queues. Their performance is studied and compared for a variety of workloads. It is our intention to find a policy that increases throughput and also is fair to jobs. Simulation results indicate that the policy that schedules the shortest task in a queue, when there is not any other task that has been waiting more than some configurable period of time, yields good system performance and also provides a guarantee for fairness in individual job execution
Keywords :
distributed processing; multiprogramming; scheduling; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; distributed processor queues; distributed system; fairness; job execution; multitasking; performance; simulation; task scheduling; throughput; workloads; Multitasking; Processor scheduling; Reactive power;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Symposium, 2000. (SS 2000) Proceedings. 33rd Annual
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0598-8
DOI :
10.1109/SIMSYM.2000.844904
