CPE
1998
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
1998
Springer
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2000
IEEE
We consider a distributed server system and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our server, tasks are not preemptible. Also, the task's service d...
HPDC
2000
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2000
IEEE
While the MPP is still the most common architecture in supercomputer centers today, a simpler and cheaper machine configuration is growing increasingly common. This alternative s...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper investigates the performance of task assignment policies for server farms, as the variability of job sizes (service demands) approaches infinity. Our results reveal th...