7.3 A Sample Load Balancer

This manual steps through the design of a load balancer using an example which we will call test. The test load balancer has each processor periodically send half of its load to its neighbor in a ring. Specifically, for N processors, processor K will send approximately half of its load to (K+1)%N, every 100 milliseconds (this is an example only; we leave the genius approaches up to you).