Load Balancing in Home-Based Software DSMS

Dynamic Computation Scheduling for Load Balancing in Home-Based Software DSMs

Load balancing is a critical issue for achieving good performance in parallel and distributed systems. However , this issue is neglected in the research area of software DSMs in the past decade. In this paper, we present and evaluate a dynamic computation scheduling scheme for load balancing of iterative applications in software DSM system. The experiment platform is a home based DSM system nam...

A nity-based Self Scheduling: A More Practical Load Balancing Scheme for Home-based Software DSMs

Performance Optimization of Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems

Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems (DSMs, or Shared Virtual Memory) are advocated to be an ideal vehicle for parallel programming because of its combination of programmability of shared memory and scalability of distributed memory systems. The challenge in building a software DSM system is to achieve good performance over a wide range of parallel programs without requiring programmers t...

Adaptive Write Detection in Home-based Software DSMs

Write detection is essential in multiple-writer protocols to identify writes to shared pages so that these writes can be correctly propagated. Software DSMs that implement multiple-writer protocol normally employ the virtual memory page fault to detect writes to shared pages. It write-protects shared pages at the beginning of an interval to detect writes of the interval. This paper proposes a n...

Resource Sharing and Load Balancing Based on Agent Mobility

From the recent improvements in network and peer-to-peer technologies and the ever-growing needs for computer might, new ways of sharing resources between users have emerged. These methods are very diverse, from SETI@HOME which is a way to share the load of analysing the data from space in order to find traces of extraterrestrial life, to NAPSTER and its successors, and to Real-time video-games...