Component Load Balancing Defined
Load balancing, simply put, is the distribution of work among several computers. Many times these computers are referred to as cluster machines. There is always one central point that distributes the work among the cluster machines. This is known as the load-balancing server, or the router. The router can also act as one of the cluster machines. Conceivably a machine could be managing and assigning requests as a router, while satisfying some of the requests as a cluster machine.
The term unit of work is used when discussing load balancing. The unit of work is a chunk of work performed by a cluster machine. Usually the designers of a technology determine the unit of work. In this case the engineers from Microsoft ...
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