Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
8-21-1995
Technical Report Number
PCS-TR95-264
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.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Bishop, Matt; Valence, Mark; and Winiewski, Leonard F., "Process Migration for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems" (1995). Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR95-264. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/118