Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management
Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management

Author: Kornel Terplan

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Need help reengineering key management processes for a distributed computing environment? Want to know what management integration alternatives are currently available? How to embed products from IBM and Hewlett-Packard into customized solutions? Are expert systems worth the cost?

Resource Management on Distributed Systems
Resource Management on Distributed Systems

Author: Shikharesh Majumdar

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-11-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1119912938

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Comprehensive guide to the principles, algorithms, and techniques underlying resource management for clouds, big data, and sensor-based systems. Resource Management on Distributed Systems provides helpful guidance on resource management questions by describing algorithms and techniques for managing resources on parallel and distributed systems, including grids, clouds, and parallel processing-based platforms for big data analytics. The book introduces four general principles of resource management with a discussion of their impact on system performance, energy usage, and cost, and includes a set of exercises at the end of a chapter. To provide extensive coverage of the subject, the text includes chapters on sensors, autoscaling on clouds, complex event processing for streaming data, and data filtering techniques for big data systems. The book also covers results of applying the discussed techniques on simulated as well as real systems (including clouds and big data processing platforms), and techniques for handling errors associated with user predicted task execution times. Written by a highly qualified academic with significant research experience in the field, Resource Management on Distributed Systems includes information on sample topics such as: Attributes of parallel/distributed applications that have an intimate relationship with system behavior and performance, plus their related performance metrics. Handling a lack of a prior knowledge of local operating systems on individual nodes in a large system. Detection and management of complex events (that correspond to the occurrence of multiple raw events) on a platform for streaming analytics. Techniques for reducing data latency for multiple operator-based queries in an environment processing large textual documents. With comprehensive coverage of core topics in the field, Resource Management on Distributed Systems is a comprehensive guide to resource management in a single publication and is an essential read for professionals, researchers and students working with distributed systems.

Dynamic Resource Management on Distributed Systems Using Reconfigurable Applications
Dynamic Resource Management on Distributed Systems Using Reconfigurable Applications

Author: International Business Machines Corporation. Research Division

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: "Efficient management of distributed resources, under conditions of unpredictable and varying workload, requires enforcement of dynamic resource management policies. Execution of such policies requires a relatively fine grain control over the resources allocated to jobs in the system. Although this is a difficult task using conventional job management and program execution models, reconfigurable applications can be used to make it viable. With reconfigurable applications, it is possible to dynamically change, during the course of program execution, the number of concurrently executing tasks of an application as well as the resources allocated. Thus, reconfigurable applications can adapt to internal changes in resource requirements and to external changes affecting available resources. In this paper, we discuss dynamic management of resources on distributed systems with the help of reconfigurable applications. We first characterize reconfigurable parallel applications. We then present a new programming model for reconfigurable applications and the Distributed Resource Management System (DRMS), an integrated environment for the design, development, execution, and resource scheduling of reconfigurable applications. Experiments were conducted to verify the functionality and performance of application reconfiguration under DRMS. A detailed breakdown of the costs in reconfiguration are presented with respect to several different applications. Our results indicate that application reconfiguration is effective under DRMS and can be beneficial in improving individual application performance as well as overall system performance. We observe a significant reduction in average job response time and an improvement in overall system utilization."

The Public Participation Handbook
The Public Participation Handbook

Author: James L. Creighton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-03-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0787979635

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Internationally renowned facilitator and public participation consultant James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program. The book is also filled with practical advice, checklists, worksheets, and illustrative examples.