Minimizing the application execution time through scheduling of subtasks and communication traffic in a heterogeneous computing system

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 857-871

  Tan, Min ^a,b   Siegel, Howard Jay ^a,b   Antonio, John K ^a,c   Li, Yan Alexander ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data distribution; Data relocation; Data reuse; Distributed computing; Heterogeneous computing; Multiple data copies; Optimization; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING (HC); INTERMACHINE COMMUNICATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031209777     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.605771     Document Type: Article

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