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A resource management facility is proposed to improve the load balancing on workstation clusters when using MPI (Message Passing Interface). Introducing process migration to provide load balancing requires several important issues to be addressed.
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Dantas, M.A.R., Zaluska, E.J. (1996). Improving load balancing in an MPI environment with resource management. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_665
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