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From: delisle@white.toronto.edu (Pierre Delisle)
Newsgroups: tor.general,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Load Balancing Facility
Message-ID: <89Apr27.145108edt.30756@snow.white.toronto.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 18:51:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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 As part of a research project at the Department of Computer Science
(UofT), a 'load balancing' shell has been developed to provide a
dynamic load balancing facility for workstation-based UNIX
environments with file servers. The facility works at the user level,
is completely automatic and transparent, and does not require any
change to application programs or to the kernel. It is currently used
in two systems (SunOS and Ultrix) at the University of Toronto. We 
would be interested in installing the facility in a few more 
environments.

 If your environment consists of a cluster of workstations connected
by ethernet, running something close to UNIX BSD 4.2/4.3, sharing file
systems via NFS, and that you wish the lost cpu cycles of idle
workstations be used transparently to provide better overall system
performance, then you qualify as an ideal environment!

 Interested system managers, please email directly to the author of
this message. 

Many thanks.
-- 
Pierre Delisle
delisle@white.toronto.edu
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