NHSE Software Catalog

Task Broker

url

http://www.hp.com:80/wsg/ssa/task.html

title_line

distributes computational tasks among heterogeneous
UNIX-based computer systems

abstract

Task Broker is a software tool that attempts to distribute computational
tasks among heterogeneous UNIX-system-based computer systems. Task
Broker performs its computational distribution without requiring any changes
to the application. Task Broker will relocate a job and its data according to
rules set up at initialization.

contact

1-800-752-0900

keywords

load balancing; job scheduling; heterogeneous network;
workstation cluster