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1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid   p. 668
A Protocol for Load Sharing among a Cluster of Heterogeneous Unix Workstations
Deepak Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Ashish Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Sushil K Agrawal, Veritas Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Vikas Agarwal, IBM Solutions Research Center
Pradip Bepari, Ionic Microsystems Pvt. Ltd.

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Abstract
In this paper, we propose a protocol for load sharing among a cluster of heterogeneous Unix workstations. Our protocol, called the Distributed Process Management Protocol (DPMP), not only enables load sharing using non-preemptive process migration but also seamlessly integrates the processes running on a network of machines. Remote processes can be accessed (for signalling, for example), in the same way as local processes making process migration highly transparent to the users and the applications. DPM-P also has builtin mechanisms to detect and recover from node and network failures. DPMP can be implemented at either the kernel or the user level. We also describe an implementation of DPMP within the Linux kernel. Preliminary performance studies show that the performance gains obtained by using DPMP are substantial.
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Citation:  Deepak Gupta, Ashish Gupta, Sushil K Agrawal, Vikas Agarwal, Pradip Bepari, "A Protocol for Load Sharing among a Cluster of Heterogeneous Unix Workstations," ccgrid, p. 668,  1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid,  2001