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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Surprising results on task assignment in server farms with high-variability workloads
This paper investigates the performance of task assignment policies for server farms, as the variability of job sizes (service demands) approaches infinity. Our results reveal th...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew R. ...
CPE
1998
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...