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Performance Evaluation of a Load Sharing System on a Cluster of Workstations

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High Performance Computing – HiPC’99 (HiPC 1999)

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This paper presents a methodology to evaluate the performance of load allocating algorithms using queuing network facilities. First, we develop a generic model of load sharing systems. Then, a specific model is derived from the generic model that simulates a real load sharing system. This phase consists of successive manipulations of algorithms parameters until reaching satisfied approximations. Once the suitable parameters have been tuned, which configure the specific model, it is easy to evaluate the performance of the load allocating algorithms for various applications and hardware configurations.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252, Cedex 05, France

    Yanal Hajmahmoud, Pierre Sens & Bertil Folliot

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  1. Yanal Hajmahmoud
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  1. College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street, IL 60607-7043, Chicago

    Prith Banerjee

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA 90089-2562, Los Angeles, USA

    Viktor K. Prasanna

  3. Indian Statistical Institute, ACM Unit, 700 108, Kolkata, India

    Bhabani P. Sinha

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Hajmahmoud, Y., Sens, P., Folliot, B. (1999). Performance Evaluation of a Load Sharing System on a Cluster of Workstations. In: Banerjee, P., Prasanna, V.K., Sinha, B.P. (eds) High Performance Computing – HiPC’99. HiPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46642-0_11

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