Runtime incremental concentrated scheduling on NOW(NRICS)

Runtime Incremental Concentrated Scheduling on NOW(NRICS) is an important task scheduling and load balancing strategy on Network of Workstations(NOW), it divides the whole NOW system into two types of alternative phases: a system scheduling phase and an underlying system executing phase. It has four important features: runtime scheduling, incremental scheduling, concentrated scheduling and exchanging load among nodes parallelly. With this strategy, the load imbalance in one system executing phase can be improved and corrected in the next system scheduling phase, and so make all nodes' load continuously trend to balance. NRICS has good performance of parallel computing, load balancing, and scalability, it is an ideal task scheduling and load balancing strategy in a parallel computing environment based on NOW.