Simulation of institutional behavior in a national networking environment
WSC '76 Proceedings of the 76 Bicentennial conference on Winter simulation
Batch computer scheduling: A heuristically motivated approach
SIGMETRICS '74 Proceedings of the 1974 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and evaluation
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Networking provides an effective means for resource sharing; however, its utility for load leveling requires further demonstration. This paper examines obstacles to load leveling and concludes that the key issues relate to the possible loss of control over remotely processed jobs and data. Although an organizational framework necessary to provide appropriate control exists, the technological support mechanism necessary for control in the form of processing guarantees has not yet been developed. Such development requires an essentially real time control capability for determining both the feasibility of accepting remote jobs as well as the guarantees which can be stipulated when such jobs are offered for processing. The key component of this capability is shown to be a very fast analytically driven simulation technique which can be invoked at a given site each time a job is offered for processing. We note in passing that this control capability can be viewed as the “other side” of control limits. That is, while control limits are concerned with determining when system performance has strayed out of bounds, a control capability is concerned with dynamic control of system workload to keep system performance within bounds.