| Abstract: | This paper presents the design philosophy and implementation of the BALANCE system. BALANCE is a flexible, network independent and computer architecture independent load balancing system which allows the building of reusable parallel and distributed applications. By implementing related services as bi generic servers with their connection endpoints registered in BALANCE, the clients can easily access the servers by server system calls. To demonstrate the flexibility of BALANCE, several widely different applications have been implemented and evaluated, including system servers, parallel and distributed applications and a scheduling testbed. The use of generic servers to improve system modularity and code reuse is also discussed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
