Static and dynamic scheduling algorithms for scalable Web server farm

Proceedings - 9th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, PDP 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 369-376

  Casalicchio, E ^a   Tucci, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; HTML; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; GLOBAL SCHEDULERS; HEAVY-TAILED CHARACTERISTICS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL APPLICATION; QUALITY OF WEB SERVICES; SCALABLE WEB SERVICES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC SCHEDULING;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84963616539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.2001.905064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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