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Flexible and extensible load balancing

✍ Scribed by Chi-Chung Hui; Samuel T Chanson

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 197 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0038-0644
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199711)27:11<1283::aid-spe132>3.0.co;2-l

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✦ Synopsis

This paper presents the design philosophy and implementation of the BALANCE system. BALANCE is a flexible, network independent and computer architecture independent load balancing system which allows the building of reusable parallel and distributed applications. By implementing related services as generic servers with their connection endpoints registered in BALANCE, the clients can easily access the servers by server system calls. To demonstrate the flexibility of BALANCE, several widely different applications have been implemented and evaluated, including system servers, parallel and distributed applications and a scheduling testbed. The use of generic servers to improve system modularity and code reuse is also discussed.

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