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The combined computing capacity of the workstations that are present in many organisations nowadays is often under-utilised, as the performance for parallel programs is unpredictable. Load balancing through dynamic task re-allocation can help to obtain a more reliable performance. The Esprit project Dynamite provides such an automated load balancing system. It can migrate tasks that are part of a parallel program using a message passing library. Currently Dynamite supports PVM only, but it is being extended to support MPI as well. The Dynamite package is completely transparent, i.e. neither system (kernel) nor application source code need to be modified. Dynamite supports migration of tasks using dynamically linked libraries, open files and both direct and indirect PVM communication. Monitors and a scheduler are included. In this paper, we first briefly describe the Dynamite system. Next we describe how migration decisions are made and report on some performance measurements.