62 | 63 | Effective load-balancing systems for services hosted in wide-area networks need to take into account both the congestion of the network and the load on the servers. In this demonstration, we show a comprehensive load-balancing system to minimize client response time and reduce system cost for such services. The system we show, called Aster*x, uses the global state of server load and network congestion, and dynamically routes the requests over appropriate (server, path) pairs calculated using the load-balancing algorithms we developed. |