Native code process-originated migration in a heterogeneous environment

Abstract

Dynamic migration has been investigated in several research efforts as a vehicle for load sharing, resource sharing, communication overhead reduction, failure robustness, and several other contexts. This paper presents a summary of related work in dynamic migration, and suggests motivations for considering heterogeneous migration. Next a design for heterogeneous migration, along with its restrictions is presented. A prototype implementation is described. Conclusions are drawn and future work is suggested.