Load balancing in a cluster computer

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 569-577

  Werstein, Paul ^a   Situ, Hailing ^a   Huang, Zhiyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CLUSTER COMPUTER; DISTRIBUTED USE; NETWORK TRAFFIC; QUEUE LENGTH;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 38949113178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDCAT.2006.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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