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Recent technological developments, including gigabit networking technology and low-cost, high-performance microprocessors, have given rise to metacomputing environments. Metacomputing environments combine hosts from multiple administrative domains via transnational and world-wide networks. Managing the resources in such a system is a complex task, but is necessary to efficiently and economically execute user programs. The Legion resource management system is flexible both in its support for system-level resource management but also in their adaptability for user-level scheduling policies.
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Chapin, S.J., Katramatos, D., Karpovich, J., Grimshaw, A.S. (1999). The Legion Resource Management System. In: Feitelson, D.G., Rudolph, L. (eds) Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing. JSSPP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47954-6_9
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