The increasing use of online services leads to an unequal distribution of the loads among the servers. As a result, the problem is to balance the loads among the servers such that the total number of active servers is minimized. One of the possible solutions is to transfer the loads from the...

The dynamics of a fibre-bundle-type model with equal load sharing rule is numerically studied. The system, formed by N elements, is driven by a slow increase of the load upon it which is removed in a novel way through internal transfers to the elements broken during avalanches. When an avalanche...