Paper Info
Title
An Enhanced Scheduling Approach in a Distributed Parallel Environment Using Mobile Agents
Abstract
In this article our goal is to apply the mobile agent technology to provide a better scheduling to MPI applications executing in a cluster configuration. This approach could represent in a distributed cluster environment an enhancement on the load balancing of the parallel processes. MPI in cluster of heterogeneous machines could lead parallel programmers to obtain frustrated results, mainly because of the lack of an even distribution of the workload in the cluster. As a result, before submitting a MPI application to a cluster, we use our JOTA mobile agent approach to acquire a more precise information of machine麓sworkload. Therefore, with a more precise knowledge of the load and characteristics in each machine,we are ready to gather lightweight workstations to form a cluster. Our empirical results indicates that it is possible to spend less elapsed time when considering the execution of a parallel application using the agent approach in comparison to an ordinary MPI environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/HPCSA.2002.1019152
HPCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Java,message passing,parallel programming,resource allocation,software agents,workstation clusters,JOTA,MPI,cluster computing,cluster configuration,distributed cluster environment,distributed parallel environment,enhanced scheduling approach,lightweight workstations,load balancing,message passing interface,mobile agents,scheduling
Load management,Load balancing (computing),Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Mobile agent,Parallel computing,Software agent,Message Passing Interface,Application software,Computer cluster,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1626-2
3
0.44
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. A. R. Dantas16411.07
J. G. R. C. Lopes230.44
T. G. Ramos330.44