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A network formed by desktop and portable computers is a useful environment for doing parallel computing. In this infrastructure we implement Master/Slave parallel distributed programs which exhibit strict data dependencies among iterations and parallel calculations inside an iteration. In a previous work, we developed a load balancing strategy that uses performance information of slave computers supplied by a framework based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This strategy considers the received beacon strength in the portable computers for executing this kind of applications efficiently. However, when a portable computer is located in a limited coverage area, our framework considers that this resource is unavailable, and therefore it can’t be used for parallel computing. In this paper we present a mechanism based on the extension of our SNMP framework that allows us to use the computers while there is a wireless network connection.
Research partially supported by Canary Government under Contract: PI:164/2004.
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Sánchez, D., Macías, E.M., Suárez, Á. (2005). An Improved Mechanism for Controlling Portable Computers in Limited Coverage Areas. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_59
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