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Process Migration for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems


Citation

  • M. Bishop, M. Valence, and L. Wisniewski, “Process Migration for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems”, Technical Report PCS-TR95-264, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 (Aug. 1995).

Paper

Abstract

The policies and mechanisms for migrating processes in a distributed system become more complicated in a heterogeneous environment, where the hosts may differ in their architecture and operating systems. These distributed systems include a large quantity and great diversity of resources which may not be fully utilized without the means to migrate processes to the idle resources. In this paper, we present a graph model for single process migration which can be used for load balancing as well as other non traditional scenarios such as migration during the graceful degradation of a host. The graph model provides the basis for a layered approach to implementing the mechanisms for process migration in a Heterogeneous Migration Facility (HMF). HMF provides the user with a library to automatically migrate processes and checkpoint data.

Background

This grew out of a question posed by someone in a heterogeneous environment; how could the site migrate processes from (for example) an SGI Iris to a Sun workstation?

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