A Simulator of Operating System Job Scheduling
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MiscellaneousType:
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IntermediateAuthor:
Dominic A. CardellaVersion Compatibility: Visual Basic 6
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This an excellent tool for understanding simple scheduling algorithms due to the unique graphical display of the jobs generated and the batch's scheduling results.
- Simulates the "Round-Robin" and a "Non-Preemptive" approach to job or process scheduling. Allows the user to randomly generate 4 jobs with a 50/50 CPU to I/O distribution for each job and view a graphical representation of how each job is scheduled. Rules for this implementation are: 1.) only 1 job is allowed to use the CPU per time slice, and 2.) there may be multiple I/O processes per time slice.
- Each group of 4 jobs is called a batch. The user may schedule from 1 to 100 batches. There are two modes for displaying scheduling results. Validate mode allows the user to step-through and see the results of each batch. Production mode merely displays the average turn around time of all batches that have been scheduled.
- This an excellent tool for understanding simple scheduling algorithms due to the unique graphical display of the jobs generated and the batch's scheduling results.
Instructions: Click the link below to download the code. Select 'Save' from the IE popup dialog. Once downloaded, open the .zip file from your local drive using WinZip or a comparable program to view the contents.
Download scheduler_v2.zip