A Flexible Framework: Built-in candidacy functions

• byAge

  • remove all servers from whom we have not heard resource information

• byRandom

  • reorder the existing server list randomly

• byLogWindow

  • reduce the list of n servers to the first log2(n)

• byCPU

  • reorder the existing server list from most idle CPU to least idle CPU

• byLoad

  • reorder the existing server list from least loaded to most loaded

• byCost

  • reorder the existing server list from least costly to most costly

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