A Task Duplication Based Scalable Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Memory Systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-27

  Darbha, Sekhar ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

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EID: 0001957555     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1997.1376     Document Type: Article

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