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 literature, mainly focusing on coarse-grain distributed computation. Fine-grain services introduce additional challenges because system states fluctuate rapidly for those services and system performance is highly sensi...

The Design, Optimization, and Performance of an Adaptive Middlware Load Balancing Service by Ossama Othman Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Irvine Professor Douglas C. Schmidt, Chair Distributed object computing (DOC) middleware is increasingly used as the infrastructure for applications with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements, incl...

Load balancing is one of the main challenges of every structured peer-to-peer (P2P) system that uses distributed hash tables to map and distribute data items (objects) onto the nodes of the system. In a typical P2P system with N nodes, the use of random hash functions for distributing keys among peer nodes can lead to O(log N) imbalance. Most existing load balancing algorithms for structured P2...

In this paper, we describe a single system image (SSI) architecture for distributed systems. The SSI architecture is constructed through three components: single process space (SPS), process migration, and dynamic load balancing. These components attempt to share all available resources in the cluster among all executing processes, so that the distributed system operates like a single node with...

In order to solve the problems of ill-balanced task allocation, long response time, low throughput rate and poor performance when the cluster system is assigning tasks, we introduce the concept of entropy in thermodynamics into load balancing algorithms. This paper proposes a new load balancing algorithm for homogeneous clusters based on the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM). By calculating the entr...

This position paper presents the main goals of the Ellie project which have been to design and implement a general, powerful, fine-grained, object-oriented, programming language intended for machine independent programming of distributed memory parallel computers. The implementation includes operating system facilities for message routing and load balancing. The main subject of this paper is lo...

This paper introduces and studies the question of balancing the load on processors participating in a given quorum system. Our proposed measure for the degree of balancing is the ratio between the load on the least frequently referenced element and on the most frequently used one. We give some simple sufficient and necessary conditions for perfect balancing. We then look at the balancing proper...