BATRUN - UTILIZING IDLE WORKSTATIONS FOR LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING

Authors
TANDIARY F KOTHARI SC DIXIT A ANDERSON EW
Citation
F. Tandiary et al., BATRUN - UTILIZING IDLE WORKSTATIONS FOR LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING, IEEE parallel & distributed technology, 4(2), 1996, pp. 41-48
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Computer Science Theory & Methods
Journal title
IEEE parallel & distributed technology → ACNP
ISSN journal
10636552
Volume
4
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
41 - 48
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-6552(1996)4:2<41:B-UIWF>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The Batrun distributed processing system locates idle workstations in a cluster and uses them as one virtual computer for batch processing. To guarantee that local users have top priority for their machines Bat run preempts the batch jobs and migrates them to other machines.