Title
The Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM): Making Computer Clusters Adaptive
Abstract
The Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM) is a middleware concept to form a parallel computing machine consisting of a any set of processing units, such as functional units in a processor or FPGA, processing units in a multiprocessor chip, or computers in a computer cluster. Its structure and functionality is biologically inspired aiming towards forming a combined workforce of independent units ("sites"), each acting on the same set of simple rules. The SDVM supports growing and shrinking the cluster at runtime as well as heterogeneous clusters. It uses the work-stealing principle to dynamically distribute the workload among all sites. The SDVM's energy management targets the health of all sites by adjusting their power states according to workload and temperature. Dynamic reassignment of the current workload facilitates a new energy policy which focuses on increasing the reliability of each site. This paper presents the structure and the functionality of the SDVM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/978-0-387-34733-2_17
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COOPERATIVE COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy management,chip,parallel processing,middleware,functional unit,energy policy,parallel computer,clustering
Middleware,Virtual machine,Computer science,Parallel processing,Field-programmable gate array,Chip,Multiprocessing,Cluster analysis,Computer cluster,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
216
1571-5736
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Haase1658.01
Andreas Hofmann210.37
Klaus Waldschmidt312230.92