Distributed operating systems have many aspects in common with centralized ones, but they
also differ in certain ways. This paper is intended as an introduction to distributed operating …

Process migration is the act of transferring a process between two machines. It enables
dynamic load distribution, fault resilience, eased system administration, and data access …

Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing.
Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical problems of cooperative …

One measure of the usefulness of a general-purpose distributed computing system is the
system's ability to provide a level of performance commensurate to the degree of multiplicity …

Load balancing is the process of redistributing the work load among nodes of the distributed
system to improve both resource utilization and job response time while also avoiding a …

Rather than proposing a specific load sharing policy for implementation, the authors address
the more fundamental question of the appropriate level of complexity for load sharing …

Since the early days of mankind the primary motivation for the establishment of communities
has been the idea that by being part of an organized group the capabilities of an individual …

We consider policies for CPU load balancing in networks of workstations. We address the
question of whether preemptive migration (migrating active processes) is necessary, or …

An important part of a distributed system design is the choice of a load sharing or global
scheduling strategy. A comprehensive literature survey on this topic is presented. We …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …