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.
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.