Abstract
High-performance clusters are of increasing interest. In general, they consist of several heterogeneous workstations and/or PCs connected via a fast network. A large problem in this area is the efficient utilization of all available resources; hence, automated load management systems are applied. Due to the heterogeneous hardware, most of the standard load-balancing tools cannot be used because they support only homogeneous machines. In this paper, the FLASH (Flexible Agent System for Heterogeneous Clusters) system is presented, which uses a mobile agent approach. Mobile agents have the capability of travelling through a heterogeneous cluster and fulfilling jobs on the visited computation nodes. FLASH offers application programmers a framework for the creation of distributed load-balanced applications. Currently, the realization is based on Java and the agent system Voyager.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings. 24th EUROMICRO Conference (Cat. No.98EX204) |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 01.01.1998 |
Pages | 1005-1012 |
ISBN (Print) | 0-8186-8646-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01.01.1998 |
Event | 24th EUROMICRO Conference, EURMIC 1998 - Vasteras, Sweden Duration: 25.08.1998 → 27.08.1998 Conference number: 133935 |