Simulating Load Balancing on Heterogeneous Workstation Clusters

Authors:
Helmut Hlavacs;Christoph W. Ueberhuber
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ParNum '99 Proceedings of the 4th International ACPC Conference Including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia: Parallel Computation
Year:
1999

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Abstract

A new system for simulating dynamic load balancing on heterogeneous workstation clusters is presented. Competing workload can be modeled in various ways, from simple to sophisticated. Instead of running real parallel workload, the program designer builds an application model, which is then run on the simulation system. The simulator provides standard UNIX load averages and can easily be adapted and extended for special purposes.