List of Figures

• The workstation model
• The Xterminal-Server model
• The processor pool model
• The taxonomy
• A stochastic learning automaton
• The Adaline
• The testbed
• The process view of a compute server
• Page references
• Vmstat output
• Paging rate
• SunOS paging system
• Computation of the user model
• Relationship f between IO-boundness and CPU-boundness.
• User time distribution
• The compute server model
• Reported memory allocation
• Simulator memory allocation
• The Disk IO subsystem
• Global state update collection agent
• Initial Placement Mechanism
• Process Migration Mechanism
• A revised taxonomy
• The prediction mechanism
• Swamping of least loaded host
• Selecting a location policy for average
• Host resource space
• Resource Balancing
• Worst fit
• The testbed, the input parameters and output values
• Appendix guide
• Constant gradient
• Overdistribution
• CPU bias.
• Memory bias.
• IO bias.
• CPU and memory bias.
• CPU and IO bias.
• Memory and IO bias.
• Highest load, no bias.
• Medium load, no bias.
• CPU bias.
• Memory bias.
• IO bias.
• CPU and memory bias.
• CPU and IO bias.
• Memory and IO bias.
• Highest load, no bias.
• Medium load, no bias.
• CPU bias.
• Memory bias.
• IO bias.
• CPU and memory bias.
• CPU and IO bias.
• Memory and IO bias.
• Highest load, no bias.
• Medium load, no bias.
• CPU bias.
• Memory bias.
• IO bias.
• CPU and memory bias.
• CPU and IO bias.
• Memory and IO bias.
• Highest load, no bias.
• Medium load, no bias.