Performance of PVM with the MOSIX preemptive process migration scheme

Proceedings of the 7th Israeli Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering, ICCSSE 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 38-45

  Barak, Amnon ^a   Braverman, Avner ^a   Gilderman, Ilia ^a   Laden, Oren ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Dynamic load balancing; High performance systems; Preemptive process migration

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; BENCHMARKING; DYNAMIC LOADS; NETWORK SECURITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTING RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS; PROCESS MIGRATION; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; SUB-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; TRANSPARENT PROCESS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957891312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCSSE.1996.554847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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