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A Load Distribution Through Competition For Workstation Clusters, Kam Hong Shum, Muslim Bozyigit

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The aim of this work is to develop a competition driven solution approach for load distribution in distributed computing system (DCS) environments. The subject DCS is composed of a set of workstation clusters. The study deals with concurrent applications, but assumes the existence of the independent tasks executing on individual workstations as well. Akin to conventional load balancing algorithms, the approach considers two phases; the partitioning phase and the mapping phase. Each phase is based on the application and the DCS data which is translated into market data, mainly price. The price is governed by the demand and supply of …