Cooperative scheduling for multimedia services and computation intensive applications for cluster server

Author

Wan, H.H. ; Lin, X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

688

Lastpage

693

Abstract

The cluster server is widely used in different types of systems. However, different types of applications require different types of resources from the cluster. Multimedia services heavily depend on the available communication bandwidth between server and clients. On the other hand, some scientific applications rely on CPU computation power. If a cluster server can support both types of application, resource utilization can be enhanced substantially. Unfortunately, when both types of applications compete for the network bandwidth, the QoS of the multimedia services will be decreased since the data have a temporally dependency feature. The authors propose cooperative scheduling between these two types of application in a cluster server system such that when the applications compete for bandwidth for communication, the influence of QoS of multimedia video services can be minimized

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; client-server systems; multimedia systems; resource allocation; workstation clusters; CPU computation power; QoS; cluster server; cluster server system; communication bandwidth; computation intensive applications; cooperative scheduling; multimedia services; multimedia video services; network bandwidth; resource utilization; scientific applications; temporally dependency feature; Application software; Availability; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Computer networks; Costs; Local area networks; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Processor scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2001. Proceedings. First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1010-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923261

Filename

923261