A comparison of receiver-initiated and sender-initiated adaptive load sharing (extended abstract)

One goal of locally distributed systems is to facilitate resource sharing. Most current locally distributed systems, however, share primarily data, data storage devices, and output devices; there is little sharing of computational resources. Load sharing is the process of sharing computational resources by transparently distributing the system workload. System performance can be improved by transferring work from nodes that are heavily loaded to nodes that are lightly loaded.