mj@elmgate.UUCP (Mark A. Johnson) (06/29/87)
I am doing some reading on task migration and scheduling. I was wondering if anyone had references on this sort of material? I am interested in dynamic task migration in loosely-coupled homogeneous-architecture distributed systems. Migration of running or swapped processes is my major interest, but papers on load-balancing and/or initial process scheduling using these techniques are also good. I am interested both in case studies and "Tanenbaum"-style literature surveys with lots of references at the end. I haven't had too much success ransacking the journals for this material, but then again, I am a novice at doing this sort of literature research. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark A Johnson - Eastman Kodak Co. - Dept 646 - KEEPS - Rochester, NY 14650 The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of Eastman Kodak Company and are entirely my responsibility. UUCP ...rutgers!rochester!kodak!elmgate!mj
pase@ogcvax.UUCP (Douglas M. Pase) (01/19/88)
I am looking for articles which report on the perfomance of task migration schemes in distributed operating systems. I am not interested in the load balancing aspects, only on a performance comparison between schemes which migrate tasks once they have been started and those which do not. I was told that such a study was done using DEMOS/MP, but I am unable to find a reference which reports it. I have the 1983 SOSP article and one on DEMOS in Software, Practice and Experience, April 1987, but no comparison of the type I am after was reported. Do you know of any (reasonably available) articles which do make this comparison? -- Doug Pase -- ...ucbvax!tektronix!ogcvax!pase or pase@cse.ogc.edu (CSNet)