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Dynamic task assignment in server farms: better performance by task grouping
Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’02), IEEE Computer Society Press (2002)
  • Ling Tan, ACER
  • Z Tari
Abstract

This paper describes a dynamic load balancing approach to distributed server farm systems. This approach overcomes the interference caused by non-negligible very-large tasks in the heavy-tailed distribution. First, a subset of tasks is allocated proportionally to the processing capability of participating servers by taking into account their remaining processing time. Later, tasks in the servers are processed in order of priority to optimise the system response time. The proposed load balancing algorithm also takes into account the information on server loads to avoid load imbalance caused by very large tasks. The experiments show that the mean waiting time and the mean slow down time are reduced at the server farm system.

Keywords
  • Load balancing algorithm,
  • Algorithm,
  • Server farm system,
  • Servers
Publication Date
2002
Comments
Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’02), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 175-180.
Citation Information
Ling Tan and Z Tari. "Dynamic task assignment in server farms: better performance by task grouping" Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’02), IEEE Computer Society Press (2002)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ling_tan/10/