Load Balancing in a Networked Environment through Homogenization

TL;DR

This paper presents homogenization, a technique for distributing workloads in networked systems to optimize speedup despite hardware and software heterogeneity, without user intervention.

Contribution

It introduces a novel homogenization method that balances workload in heterogeneous distributed systems to maximize performance transparently.

Findings

Improved speedup in heterogeneous environments

Workload balancing achieved without user interaction

Enhanced system performance and transparency

Abstract

Distributed processing across a networked environment suffers from unpredictable behavior of speedup due to heterogeneous nature of the hardware and software in the remote machines. It is challenging to get a better performance from a distributed system by distributing task in an intelligent manner such that the heterogeneous nature of the system do not have any effect on the speedup ratio. This paper introduces homogenization, a technique that distributes and balances the workload in such a manner that the user gets the highest speedup possible from a distributed environment. Along with providing better performance, homogenization is totally transparent to the user and requires no interaction with the system.