A comparison of receiver-initiated and sender-initiated adaptive load sharing
Performance Evaluation
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
Load balancing in homogeneous broadcast distributed systems
Proceedings of the Computer Network Performance Symposium
An evaluation of load sharing in locally distributed systems
An evaluation of load sharing in locally distributed systems
Load Sharing in Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Animation of computer simulations of two-dimensional turbulence and three-dimensional flows
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Numerical simulation and immersive visualization of hairpin vortices
SC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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Load sharing has been the focus of a great deal of research as a means of enhancing the performance of distributed systems. In this paper we evaluate the potential benefits of load sharing in hierarchical distributed systems. A hierarchical system consists of sub-systems, each of which is a distributed system in its own right. Our goal is to determine the level(s) at which load sharing may be exercised to improve the system performance at minimum overhead. Our simulation results indicate that most of the potential benefits can be achieved by employing load sharing locally. The additional benefit gained from global load sharing is minimal and does not justify the cost associated with it.