A Competitive Environment for Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Workstation Clusters

• Main Authors: SHUM, Kam Hong, Moody, K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1996
• Subjects: Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1056; http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.55.8332
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper describes a system that facilitates a competitive environment for parallel applications on heterogeneous workstation clusters. The system tries to maximize the speedup of the parallel applications and, at the same time, to allocate workstations efficiently and fairly to the applications....