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@MISC{Watts95apractical,
author = {Jerrell Watts},
title = {A Practical Approach to Dynamic Load Balancing},
year = {1995}
}
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algorithm for load balancing. The following sections elaborate on each step in the above algorithm, presenting various design decisions that one encounters. 2.1 Load Evaluation The efficacy of any load balancing scheme is directly dependent on the quality of load evaluation. Good load measurement is necessary both to determine that a load imbalance exists and to calculate how much work should be transferred to alleviate that imbalance. One can determine the load associated with a given task analytically, empirically or by a combination of those two methods. 6 CHAPTER 2. METHODOLOGY 2.1.1 Analytic Load Evaluation The load for a task is estimated based on knowledge of the time complexity of the algorithm(s) that task is executing along with the data structures on which it is operating. For example, if one knew that a task involved merge sorting a list of 64 elements, one might estimate the load to be 384, since merge sort is an O(N log 2 N) sorting algorithm, and since 64 log 2 (64) ...
