An integrated processor management scheme for the mesh-connected multicomputer systems

The performance of a multicomputer system depends on the processor management strategy. Processor management deals with processor allocation and job scheduling. Most of the processor allocation and job scheduling schemes proposed in the literature incur high implementation complexity and are therefore impractical to be integrated. In this paper, we propose an integrated processor management scheme that includes a bypass-queue scheduling policy and a fixed-orientation allocation algorithm. Both policies have very low complexities and are hence suitable to be integrated. Both policies improve the system performance considerably when applied in isolation. The integrated scheme provides even better performance.