Stochastic bounds for parallel program execution times with processor constraints

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 630-636

  Li, Keqin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Execution time; Parallel program; Processor allocation; Stochastic bound; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

STOCHASTIC BOUNDS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0031361256     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.589243     Document Type: Article

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