Dear Dr. Banicescu
We append a referee report on your paper

C462: Experiences from Integrating Algorithmic and Systemic Load Balancing Strategies

We would be happy to publish your paper if you addressed the changes 
suggested by the referee. I think this is quite easy!
Please include a discussion of your changes and how they answer the
referee in your resubmittal. If this is persuasive, we can publish your paper
without further refereeing. 
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for not replying earlier.
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C462 Referees Report

This is a well-written and interesting paper exploring the integration of system
and application specific load balancing under the Hector environment.

I have a few minor comments:
o The use of the word systemic - I would advise that the authors to explain their
usage of the word at the beginning of the paper.

o Page 4, paragraph 2, prepending "in the above mentioned" twice appears a clumsy
style. I would prefer something like "presented in the survey [1]".

o Page 4, paragraph 2, you mention "a distributed architecture design" twice in
this paragraph. You should explain what you mean by this.

o Page 4, paragraph 2, sentence starting "Hector is designed to…" add plural to
monitor.

o Page 4, paragraph 3, perhaps remove "the" before MPICH. 

o Page 5, paragraph 3, change "certain size amount of" to "certain sized amounts
of work"

o Page 7, section 3.1, change "In Hector paradigm" to "In the Hector paradigm".

o Page 7, section 3.1, change "don't" to "does not"

o Page 9, section 3.2, add details about network technology connecting the cluster
together.

o Page 13, paragraph 2, Question, why does the MA separate threads handling this
message queues?

o Page 14, section 3.2.2, add "a"  "does not result in a cost increase"

o Page 16, section 4, Add discussion of how Hectiling would be affected my a
heterogeneous platform, such as a PC cluster connected via various bandwidth
interconnects. I would like to see a fuller discussion of the cost of task
migration and its affects on performance of Hectiling.

o Page 16, section 4, please add some words on how the authors see the Hectiling
paradigm being generalized to support other applications which could benefit from
this integrated load balancing strategy.