A Trace-Driven Simulation Study of Dynamic Load Balancing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The limited performance benefits of migrating active processes for load sharing
SIGMETRICS '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The Influence of Different Workload Descriptions on a Heuristic Load Balancing Scheme
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
FLIP: an internetwork protocol for supporting distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Load Distribution: Implementation for the MACH Microkernel
Load Distribution: Implementation for the MACH Microkernel
Transparent Process Migration for Personal Workstations
Transparent Process Migration for Personal Workstations
Artificial life techniques for load balancing in computational grids
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
On the performance-driven load distribution for heterogeneous computational grids
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Grid resource management policies for load-balancing and energy-saving by vacation queuing theory
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Towards decentralized load balancing in a computational grid environment
GPC'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
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Load balancing has been extensive study by simulation, positive results were received in most of the researches. With the increase of the availability of distributed systems, a few experiments have been carried out on different systems. These experimental studies either depend on task initiation or task initiation plus task migration. In this paper, we present the results of an experimental study of load balancing using a centralized policy to manage the load on a set of processors. All experiments were carried out on an Amoeba system composed by a set of 386s and linked by 10Mbps Ethernet. The results on one hand indicate the necessity of a load balancing facility for a distributed system. On the other hand, the results question the impact of using process migration to increase system performance under the configuration used in our experiments.