BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-85-1087
       ENTRY:: May 01, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Preemptable remote execution facilities for the V-system
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Theimer, Marvin M.
      AUTHOR:: Lantz, Keith A.
      AUTHOR:: Cheriton, David R.
        DATE:: September 1985
       PAGES:: 18
    ABSTRACT:: A remote execution facility allows a user of a
               workstation-based distributed system to offload programs onto
               idle workstations, thereby providing the user with access to
               computational resources beyond that provided by his personal
               workstation. In this paper, we describe the design and
               performance of the remote execution facility in the V
               distributed system, as well as several implementation issues
               of interest. In particular, we focus on network transparency
               of the execution environment, preemption and migration of
               remotely executed programs, and avoidance of residual
               dependencies on the original host. We argue that preemptable
               remote execution allows idle workstations to be used a a
               "pool of processors" without interfering with use by their
               owners and without significant overhead for the normal
               execution of programs. In general, we conclude that the cost
               of providing preemption is modest compared to providing a
               similar amount of computation service by dedicated
               "computation engines".
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950501]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-85-1087