NDLI: A protocol for load sharing among a cluster of heterogeneous Unix workstations

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Author	Gupta, D. Gupta, A. Agarwal, V. Agrawal, S.K. Bepari, P.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kanpur, India (Gupta, D.)
Abstract	In this paper we propose a protocol for load sharing among a cluster of heterogeneous Unix workstations. Our protocol called the distributed process management protocol (DPMP), not only enables load sharing using nonpreemptive process migration but also seamlessly integrates the processes running on a network of machines. Remote processes can be accessed (for signalling, for example), in the same way as local processes making process migration highly transparent to the users and the applications. DPMP also has built in mechanisms to detect and recover from node and network failures. DPMP can be implemented at either the kernel or the user level. We also describe an implementation of DPMP within the Linux kernel. Preliminary performance studies show that the performance gains obtained by using DPMP are substantial.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	668
Ending Page	673
File Size	652679
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769510108
DOI	10.1109/CCGRID.2001.923258
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-05-15
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Workstations Kernel Access protocols Signal processing Operating systems Libraries Computer science Linux Performance gain Computer architecture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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