[tor.general] Load Balancing Facility

delisle@white.toronto.edu (Pierre Delisle) (04/28/89)

 As part of a research project at the Department of Computer Science
(UofT), a 'load balancing' shell has been developed to provide a
dynamic load balancing facility for workstation-based UNIX
environments with file servers. The facility works at the user level,
is completely automatic and transparent, and does not require any
change to application programs or to the kernel. It is currently used
in two systems (SunOS and Ultrix) at the University of Toronto. We 
would be interested in installing the facility in a few more 
environments.

 If your environment consists of a cluster of workstations connected
by ethernet, running something close to UNIX BSD 4.2/4.3, sharing file
systems via NFS, and that you wish the lost cpu cycles of idle
workstations be used transparently to provide better overall system
performance, then you qualify as an ideal environment!

 Interested system managers, please email directly to the author of
this message. 

Many thanks.
-- 
Pierre Delisle
delisle@white.toronto.edu
...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utcsri!white!delisle

delisle@white.toronto.edu (Pierre Delisle) (02/13/90)

 As part of a research project at the Computer Science Research Institute 
(CSRI) at the University of Toronto, a 'Load Balancing Facility' (LBF) has 
been developed to dynamically share load in workstation-based UNIX
environments with file servers. The facility works at the command level
using a modified C-shell as user interface, is completely automatic and 
transparent, and does not require any change to application programs or to 
the kernel. It is currently used in two environments at the University of 
Toronto. We would be interested in installing LBF in a few more experimental 
sites to evaluate its performance under live workloads.

 If your environment consists of a cluster of workstations connected
by ethernet, running either SunOS or Ultrix, sharing file systems via NFS, 
and that you wish the lost cpu cycles of idle workstations be used 
transparently to provide better overall system performance, then you qualify 
as an ideal environment!

 Interested system managers, please e-mail directly to the author of
this message. 

Many thanks.
--
Pierre Delisle   
delisle@white.toronto.edu
..!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utcsri!white!delisle