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WOSP
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Analytic modeling of load balancing policies for tasks with heavy-tailed distributions
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...
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
IPPS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Cluster Load Balancing for Fine-Grain Network Services
This paper studies cluster load balancing policies and system support for fine-grain network services. Load balancing on a cluster of machines has been studied extensively in the...
Kai Shen, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu
SBACPAD
2003
IEEE
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Boosting Performance for I/O-Intensive Workload by Preemptive Job Migrations in a Cluster System
Load balancing in a cluster system has been investigated extensively, mainly focusing on the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources. However, if a significant portion ...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
New Results on the Performance Effects of Autocorrelated Flows in Systems
Temporal dependence within the workload of any computing or networking system has been widely recognized as a significant factor affecting performance. More specifically, burstin...
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska,...