Scalability becomes the basic need for distributed systems. With the increase of users, load on application servers also keep increasing. This requires a critical action to balance the load on servers. Load balancing is the concept of balancing load on servers using various load balancing techniques. In this paper we discuss various load-balancing techniques that are currently available. We dis...

One unintended eeect of the growth of the Internet is increased energy usage by servers and the infrastructure supporting them. This paper promotes a research agenda to improve the energy eeciency of Internet server sites. This goal is timely as the costs of energy usage and our vulnerability to energy supply disruptions become increasingly evident. In particular, we propose energy-conscious se...

Parallel incremental scheduling is a new approach for load balancing. In parallel scheduling,all processorscooperatetogether to balance the workload. Parallel scheduling accuratelybalances the load by using global load information. In incremental scheduling, the system scheduling activity alternates with the underlying computation work. This paper provides an overview of parallel incremental sc...

The energy flow characteristics of Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) system are analyzed in detail and the energy flow function is proposed for its two operational strategies: thermal load dominant mode and electrical load dominant mode. In order to improve its economic and environmental efficiency, an optimal economic and environmental dispatch model is built, which includes the fuel ...

A method of processing digital video signals produced by a sensor that are to be presented on a view?nder, the method involving: a ?rst pair of processing operations for scaling and color interpolation; and a second pair of processing opera tions for the formation of a color matrix and for White bal ancing. The operations of at least one, and preferably of both of the pairs of processing operat...

An algorithm is discussed that may be used to estimate tare loads of wind tunnel strain–gage balance calibration data. The algorithm was originally developed by R. Galway of IAR/NRC Canada and has been described in the literature for the iterative analysis technique. Basic ideas of Galway’s algorithm, however, are universally applicable and work for both the iterative and the non–iterative anal...