Aallot

Aallot is a theoretical construct in resource management describing a unit of allocation called an aallot that can be resized and reallocated among tasks to study elasticity and fairness in multi-tenant systems.

Each aallot has capacity, current demand, and can be subdivided or aggregated. It supports dynamic reassignment, enabling fluctuating workloads without violating overall resource limits.

Allocation policies assign aallots according to fairness criteria (max-min, proportional fairness) and may trigger preemption or migration when higher-priority tasks need more. Reclamation rules define when unused capacity returns to a shared pool.

Applications and use in studies: used in cloud, edge, and HPC scheduling research; as a modeling tool to compare strategies, measure fragmentation, and analyze overhead.

History and status: term appears in theoretical discussions and didactic writings; not widely standardized; related concepts include quotas, cgroups, and fair queuing.

See also: resource allocation; fair queuing; proportional fairness; quotas; scheduler.