Re: Fair Share Scheduler
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@zip.com.au)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:43:33 +1100
chip@atlantic.net wrote:
>
> The "Fair-Share Scheduler" that was deployed at least by Cray may be
> a good model for a modified scheduler:
>
> http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~piers/papers/abstracts/share1.shtml
> http://www.ecas.ou.edu:8080/library/all/SG-2113.10/1622
>
> Also some followup work:
>
> http://www.softway.com.au/softway/products/share2.html <- neat
> http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~piers/papers/abstracts/share2.shtml
Both Sun and SGI have licensed this system from Softway. SGI shipped it
in Irix 6.2, and will again soon. Sun are putting it in Solaris 2.6.
It's causing particular interest among vendors because the US DOD
modernisation program requires ShareII functionality in new purchases of
medium-big machines.
J