The sandpile scheduler: How self-organized criticality may lead to dynamic load-balancing

Cluster Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-204

  Laredo, J L J ^a   Bouvry, P ^a   Guinand, F ^b   Dorronsoro, B ^c   Fernandes, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Optimization; Scheduling; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DYNAMIC LOADS; OPTIMIZATION; SAND;

ALGORITHM DESIGN; COMPUTING RESOURCE; CONTROL PARAMETERS; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; POWER LAW RELATION; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84901636459     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-013-0328-x     Document Type: Article

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