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A general goal of distributed systems is to reduce the global time of executing a parallel application. In this paper we have developed a distributed-system software monitor named Daem2 and a workload function that splits data among the processes. This function collects the information about load value from each computer, provided by Daem2 and then takes a decision. Finally, we show the comparative results between the uniform function and the dynamic one. Such results have been obtained running a numerical parallel program on a Linux workstation network.
This work was supported in part by CICYT under Grant TIC94-0510-C02-02
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Alfaro, F.J., Gallud, J.A., Sánchez, J.L. (1997). A function to dynamic workload allocation in distributed applications. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_88
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