Men and messiahs

Tough Guys, Rock Stars, and Messiahs:

Support for Implementing Scheduling Algorithms Using MESSIAHS

The messiahs project is investigating mechanisms that support task placement in heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous systems. messiahs provides a substrate on which scheduling algorithms can be implemented. These mechanisms were designed to support diverse task placement and load balancing algorithms. As part of this work, we have constructed an interface layer to the underlying mechanisms. T...

Constructing Distributed Schedulers Using the MESSIAHS Interface Language

The messiahs project is investigating mechanisms that support task placement in heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous systems. messiahs provides a substrate on which scheduling algorithms can be implemented. These mechanisms were designed to support diverse task placement and load balancing algorithms. As part of this work, we have constructed an interface layer to the underlying mechanisms. T...

Support for Security in Distributed Systems Using Messiahs

The messiahs project is investigating the construction of a set of mechanisms to support task placement in autonomous, heterogeneous, distributed systems. In this paper we explore aspects of the messiahs system that support security in distributed systems. In particular, we will concentrate on aspects of messiahs that defeat denial of service attacks, provide firewalls, protect private system d...

An Overview of the Messiahs Distributed Scheduling Support System

Users often nd that local resources are too limited to solve large computing problems. At the same time, unused machines remain inaccessible because of incompatible architectures, ignorance of their capabilities, or incompatible administrative restrictions. To preserve this investment in equipment, yet allow for the solution of large problems, mechanisms are needed to join these systems into co...