Course: Distributed operating systems

Resource Management in Distributed Systems

Resources in Distributed Systems

• Resources and resource description
  Resource classes
  Resource managers
  Tasks of resource management
  Performance criteria

• Load balancing versus load sharing
  Requirements of load distributing
  Logical hierarchy of processors
  Logical ring
  Information policy
  Location and selection policy
  Transfer policy
  Receiver- and server-initiated algorithms
• Load Sharing
  Load sharing problems and tasks
  Taxonomies of load sharing
  Characteristics and components of load balancing
  Load sharing algorithms
  Performance of load balancing algorithms
• Load Balancing
  Load balancing problems and tasks
  Taxonomies of load balancing
  Characteristics and components of load balancing
  Load balancing algorithms
  Performance of load balancing algorithms