Load balance distribution across different numbers of machines that have differing numbers of CPU cores.

In each test, one machine has 4 cores and executes the master process alongside a slave process, and the smaller machines run slave processes. The maximum and minimum load refer to the average load of VMs with the largest and smallest loads (in terms of % of files processed) over five trials. The p-value is derived from a single-factor ANOVA test. p <= 0.05 indicates, with 95% confidence, that processing loads are not equal.