Task assignment in distributed systems

This thesis addresses the problem of task assignment in distributed systems. A distributed system is defined as any configuration of two or more processors, each with private memory, in which computations utilize the combined resources of the component machines. A distributed process is defined as a set of tasks which together work towards some common goal. Each task spends a portion of its time executing on one of the processors and a portion of its time communicating with other tasks in the distributed process. An assignment of tasks to processors designates one processor for each task to reside on for its lifetime.

# Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems # Computer Science # Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques # Real-Time Systems Scheduling

Virginia M. Lo (1983). "Task assignment in distributed systems". Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).