| comp., MS |
load balancer (A device or software that distributes the work between several computers, processes, hard disks, or other resources to get optimal resource utilization. A network load balancer, in the context of Application Request Routing, is a proxy-based load balancer that distributes network traffic among several Web servers); load balancing (In distributed processing, the distribution of activity across two or more servers in order to avoid overloading any one with too many requests from users) |
