Automatic load balancing and transparent process migration

Table of contents

Automatic load balancing and transparent process migration

Introduction

Scheme of presentation

Overview of some distributed OS

• Distributed O.S.

• Sprite

• Charlotte

• Accent

• Amoeba

• V System

• MOSIX

• Condor

Load Balancing mechanisms

• Balancing methods taxonomy

• Balancing algorithms

• Non-preemptive load balancing

• Pre-emptive load balancing

• Processor load measures

Process migration mechanisms

• User/Kernel level migration

• Process migration : factors

• transparency

• System call interposing

• Process migration: parts

• Execution state migration

• Comm state migration

• Migratable sockets

• Memory space migration

focus on Mosix

• MOSIX important points

• Prob info dissemination

• MOSIX Load bal alg.

• MOSIX info variables

• Memory ushering algorithm

• MOSIX netowork protocols

• MOSIX process migration

• Migration transparency

• MOSIX deputy/remote

• MOSIX performance/1

• MOSIX performance/2

• MOSIX dfsa

• Cache coherent gfs

Author: Roberto Innocente

E-mail: rinnocente@hotmail.com

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