Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de (Claus Assmann)
Subject: Workload management for functional languages?
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, Germany
Date: 19 Sep 1995 15:11:12 GMT
Message-ID: <43mmig$9v0@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Hello!

[I'm posting this for some members of our research group]

We are currently interested in load distribution, load balancing and
scheduling problems related to concurrent program execution in
distributed systems, particularly in divide-and-conquer schemes based
on functional program specifications.  In this context we would like to
investigate ways and means of applying chaos management/control methods
as they are known from physics to dynamic load balancing and scheduling
policies for large numbers of concurrently executable tasks.

To avoid re-inventing wheels, we would like to get some hints on
published work and to get in touch with people who might be doing
research in this area and are interested in exchanging ideas.

At the same time, we would also like to know whether there is any work
going on in applying neural networks to dynamic load balancing and
whether anyone has come up with an implementation/simulation that shows
satisfactory results.

[Followup-To is set to comp.lang.functional, since this is the main
research interest of these members]

Thanks in advance,

Claus Assmann
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