• A Testbed for Load Distribution Policies
  • The Testbed Design
  • Methods of Analysis
  • Workload Data
• A Distributed System Simulation
  • Distributed System Model
  • Process Modelling
  • Compute Server Modelling
  • Summary
• Load Distribution Mechanism
  • Load Metric
  • Load Communication
  • Load Transfer Mechanism
  • Prediction Mechanism
  • Summary
• Algorithms for Load Distribution
  • Initial Placement Algorithms
  • Migration Algorithms
  • The Resource Based Algorithms
  • Summary
• Experimental Work
  • Trace Selection
  • Gathering measurements
  • Results and Analysis
  • Conclusions
• Conclusions and Future Work
  • Future Work
  • Conclusions
• Initial Placement
• WF Migration
• Process Migration Results
• Best Compared