Load balancing helps improve system scalability by ensuring that client application requests are distributed and processed equitably across a group of servers. Likewise, it helps improve system dependability by adapting dynamically to system configura...

Focuses on the specifications for middleware-based load balancing mechanisms developed using standard CORBA, and discusses the specific load balancing service we designed using TAO.

Article by Mark Baker for 2001 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops.

By I. Attali, D. Caromel, A.L. Wendelborn. Abstract and article, PDF file.

Article by Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Tom DeBoni, John Feo, Wim Böhm, Walid Najjar and Patrick Miller. Abstract and article in PDF-file.

Abstract and many references, from paper with overview of research; link to full paper, for fee. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Argues that for concurrent programming to become mainstream, threads must be discarded as a programming model. Nondeterminism should be judiciously and carefully introduced where needed, and it should be explicit in programs.

To avoid problems with shared state working with multiple threads, Vinoski recommends a programming language like Erlang rather than C++ or Java.

Trans. PAMI, abstract.

Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Member, IEEE, and Davide Maltoni (Trans. PAMI, Abstract)