Title :
Distributed hierarchical workstation cluster co-ordination scheme
Author :
Abawajy, J.H. ; Dandamudi, S.P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
When a set of geographically distributed autonomous clusters of workstations are combined into a single large-scale virtual distributed system, a control mechanism for coordinating the activities of the combined system for effective utilisation of the resources is indispensable. This paper presents a co-ordination mechanism suitable for scheduling and distributing services across the host of such large-scale virtual distributed systems. The proposed scheme is scalable and reliable. Also, it combines both centralised and decentralised co-ordination mechanisms while eliminating/minimising their drawbacks
Keywords :
processor scheduling; workstation clusters; co-ordination mechanisms; distributed autonomous clusters of workstations; distributing services; hierarchical workstation cluster; scheduling; virtual distributed system; virtual distributed systems; Computer science; Control systems; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Large-scale systems; Local area networks; Resource management; Scheduling; Wide area networks; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0759-X
DOI :
10.1109/PCEE.2000.873612
