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- Load Balancing
- The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load...
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- REDPLAID Delivers Reliable Infrastructure for Hosting Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses' Web Applications
- REDPLAID Managed Hosting is a leading provider of secure and reliable managed hosting solutions targeted at Small-to-Medium sized Businesses SMBs worldwide. In order to provide the high levels of security, reliability and scalability REDPLAID required for its customers, they began a search for an effective load balancing solution. It required...
- Tags: Managed Hosting, Load Balancing, Web Application, Small And Medium Business, KEMP Technologies, REDPLAID, REDPLAID Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Web Hosting, Internet
- Case studies 2008-06-06
- Improving Load Balancing With Multipath Routing
- Internet service providers have to provision network resources to optimize bandwidth utilization. Dynamic routing protocols take traffic variations into account to control the load distribution. Multipath routing protocols attempt to take advantage of the path diversity to bring network robustness and reliability. Indeed, with a specific traffic engineering policy, they...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Routing Protocol, University Louis Pasteur, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-18
- Load Balancing for Multimedia Streaming in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Multimedia streaming of mostly user generated content is an ongoing trend, not only since the upcoming of Last.fm and YouTube. A distributed decentralized multimedia streaming architecture can spread the traffic costs to the user nodes, but requires providing for load balancing and consider the heterogeneity of the participating nodes. This...
- Tags: Multimedia, Load Balancing, P2P, Node, Association For Computing Machinery, Allocation, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-14
- Benchmark Framework for a Load Balancing Single System Image
- Recent developments in the load balancing Single System Image SSI clusters enabled workstations to provide a cost effective and high performance environment which has become increasingly attractive to many users. However, in practice, clusters of workstation failed to exploit their performance potential advantages. This paper presents and propose a framework...
- Tags: Performance, Load Balancing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
- A Repartitioning Hypergraph Model for Dynamic Load Balancing
- In parallel adaptive applications, the computational structure of the applications changes over time, leading to load imbalances even though the initial load distributions were balanced. To restore balance and to keep communication volume low in further iterations of the applications, dynamic load balancing repartitioning of the changed computational structure is...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Ohio State University, Repartitioning, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-07
- Performance Analysis of Load Balancing Algorithms
- Load balancing is the process of improving the performance of a parallel and distributed system through a redistribution of load among the processors. This paper presents the performance analysis of various load balancing algorithms based on different parameters, considering two typical load balancing approaches static and dynamic. The analysis indicates...
- Tags: Algorithm, Performance, Load Balancing, Engineering, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Vector Routing
- This paper provides an understanding of XRoads Networks' patent-pending Vector Routing technology that is built into its XRoads Edge product line. Vector Routing is designed to provide two fundamental services, load balancing network traffic across many paths and ensuring redundancy in the case that one or several of those paths...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, XRoads Networks, Vector Routing, Internet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Load-Balancing in Multi-Homed OLSR Networks Using Airtime Metric and Radio-Aware Path Selection: Implementation and Testing
- Wireless Mesh Networks used for broadband access may be equipped with multiple Internet gateways. Using airtime metric as the main criterion for path selection is an effective method for achieving load-balancing in such a multi-homed mesh network. This paper describes how the radio-aware path selection using airtime as a metric...
- Tags: Aware, Network, Load Balancing, Radio, University Of Agder, Path Selection, Mesh Networking, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-02-29
- Near-Optimal Load Balancing in Dense Wireless Multi-Hop Networks
- This paper considers the load balancing problem in wireless multi-hop networks. In the limit of a dense network, there is a strong separation between the macroscopic and microscopic scales, and the load balancing problem can be formulated as finding continuous curves ("Routes") between all source-destination pairs that minimize the maximum...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Helsinki University, Wireless, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-02-25
- Load Balancing of the Direct Linear Multisplitting Method in a Grid Computing Environment
- Many scientific applications need to solve very large sparse linear systems in order to simulate phenomena close to reality. Grid computing is an answer to the growing demand of computational power but communication times are significant and the bandwidth is variable, therefore frequent synchronizations slow down performances. The use of...
- Tags: Parallel, Load Balancing, Grid Computing, Network Technology, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management
- White papers 2008-02-08
- SAN Storage Provisioning With "External" Load Balancing Mechanism
- The Storage Load Balancing is just one part of the general load balancing problem in computer systems. The authors have storage controllers/processors, which act simultaneously and number of storage units which are known as volumes connected to those storage processors. The goal is to distribute those volumes, which also are...
- Tags: Load Balancing, SAN, Storage Load Balancing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-06
- Random Choices for Churn Resilient Load Balancing in Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load uneven distribution problem. Things are even worse in unstructured P2P systems. The objective of load balancing in P2P networks is to balance the workload of the network nodes in proportion to their capacity so as to eliminate traffic...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet
- White papers 2008-01-28
- An Approach to Adaptive Load Balancing for RFID Middlewares
- Recently, there have been an increasing interest in RFID system and RFID systems have been applied to various applications. Load balancing is a fundamental technique for providing scalability of systems by moving workload from overloaded nodes to under-loaded nodes. This paper presents an approach to adaptive load balancing for RFID...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Middleware, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-01-28
- Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. - Doubling Operational Capabilities and Reducing Turnaround Time by More Than Half With Dell Technology
- Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc wanted to take an inefficient, under-achieving shipping operation and rev it up to conquer a rapidly growing workload from the world's top manufacturer of infant and juvenile furniture. As a solution the company deployed $100,000 worth of Dell technology and expertise, including load-balancing terminal servers, a...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Load Balancing, EDI, Terminal Services, Portals, Network Technology, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Uncoordinated Load Balancing and Congestion Games in P2P Systems
- In P2P systems, users often have many choices of peers from whom to download their data. Each user cares primarily about its own response time, which depends on how many other users also choose that same peer. This interaction is best modeled as a game among self-interested agents, which is...
- Tags: Load Balancing, P2P, University Of California, Games, Peer To Peer (P2P), Network Technology, Personal Technology, Internet, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- New Challenges in Dynamic Load Balancing
- Data partitioning and load balancing are important components of parallel computations. Many different partitioning strategies have been developed, with great effectiveness in parallel applications. But the load-balancing problem is not yet solved completely; new applications and architectures require new partitioning features. Existing algorithms must be enhanced to support more complex...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Williams College, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Hierarchical Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing for Scientific Computation
- Cluster and grid computing has made hierarchical and heterogeneous computing systems increasingly common as target environments for large-scale scientific computation. A cluster may consist of a network of multiprocessors. A grid computation may involve communication across slow interfaces. Modern supercomputers are often large clusters with hierarchical network structures. For maximum...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Computation, Williams College, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Search
- This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. It specifically address computationally intensive search of complex data, such as content-based retrieval of digital images or sounds, where sophisticated algorithms must be evaluated on the objects of interest....
- Tags: Load Balancing, Node, Computation, Storage, Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Load Balancing in Structured P2P Systems
- Most P2P systems that provide a DHT abstraction distribute objects among "Peer nodes" by choosing random identifiers for the objects. This could result in an Olog N imbalance. Besides, P2P systems can be highly heterogeneous, i.e. they may consist of peers that range from old desktops behind modem lines to...
- Tags: Load Balancing, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Modems, Network Technology, Internet, Hardware, Components, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Load Balancing in Dynamic Structured P2P Systems
- This paper proposes an algorithm for load balancing in such heterogeneous, dynamic P2P systems. This simulation results show that in the face of rapid arrivals and departures of objects of widely varying load, this algorithm achieves load balancing for system utilizations as high as 90% while moving only about 8%...
- Tags: Algorithm, Load Balancing, P2P, Engineering
- White papers 2008-01-01
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