load balancing

Set of techniques to improve the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources

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Also known as server load balancing

Subclass of: computing

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In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. Load balancing can optimize response time and avoid unevenly overloading some compute nodes while other compute nodes are left idle.

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Facet of: distributed computing
parallel computing
resource allocation in computing
Different from: link aggregation
power-flow study
failover criterion used: use
Short name: SLB

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