Download or read book Performance Studies of Dynamic Load Balancing in Distributed Systems written by University of California, Berkeley. Computer Science Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed systems are often characterized by uneven loads on hosts and other resources. In this thesis, the problems concerning dynamic load balancing in loosely-coupled distributed systems are studied using trace-driven simulation, implementation, and measurement. Information about job CPU and I/O demands is collected from three production systems and used as input to a simulator that includes a representative CPU scheduling policy and considers the message exchange and job transfer costs explicitly. A prototype load balancer is implemented in the Berkeley UNIX and Sun/UNIX environments, and the results of a large number of measurement experiments performed on six workstations are presented.