Finding idle machines in a workstation-based distributed system

Author

Theimer, Marvin M. ; Lantz, Keith A.

Author_Institution

IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

13-17 Jun 1988

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

122

Abstract

The design and performance of scheduling facilities for finding idle hosts in a workstation-based distributed system are described. The focus is on the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized architectures with respect to scalability, fault tolerance, and simplicity of design, as well as several implementation issues of interest when using multicast communication. It is concluded that the principal tradeoff between the two approaches is that a centralized architecture can be scaled to a significantly greater degree and can more easily monitor global system statistics, while a decentralized architecture is simpler to implement

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; performance evaluation; scheduling; workstations; centralised architectures; decentralized architectures; design; fault tolerance; idle hosts; multicast communication; performance; scalability; scheduling facilities; workstation-based distributed system; Computer architecture; Computerized monitoring; Condition monitoring; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Multicast communication; Scalability; Statistical distributions; System testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1988., 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0865-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCS.1988.12508

Filename

12508