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SPAA
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
WOSP
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2000
ACM
We present an analytic technique for modeling load balancing policies on a cluster of servers conditioned on the fact that the service times of arriving tasks are drawn from heavy...
ANSS
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1997
IEEE
An important part of a distributed system design is the workload sharing among the processors. This includes partitioningthe arriving jobs into tasks that can be executed in paral...
NETWORKING
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We consider a system with multiple interconnected video servers storing TV programs that are received through satellite antennas. Users, equipped with set-top boxes, submit request...
ICPADS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...