Task clustering and scheduling for distributed memory parallel architectures

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 46-55

  Palis, Michael A ^a,b   Liou, Jing Chiou ^a,b   Wei, David S L ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Distributed memory architectures; Program task graph; Task granularity; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM TASK GRAPH; TASK CLUSTERING; TASK GRANULARITY; TASK SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029770359     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.481597     Document Type: Article

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