Experimental studies in Load Balancing

Prof. Sajal K. Das and Azzedine Boukerche

Abstract
This paper takes an experimental approach to the load balancing problem for parallel simulation applications. In particular, it focuses upon a conservative synchronization protocol, by making use of an optimal version of Chandy&Misra null message method, and proposes a dynaic load balancing algorithm which assumes no compile time knowledge about the workload parameters. The proposed scheme is also implemented on an Intel Paragon A4 multicomputer, and the performance results for several simulation models are reported.
Contact
Prof. Sajal K. Das
P.O Box 13886, Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203-6886,
das@cs.unt.edu