Worst-case analysis of scheduling heuristics of parallel systems

Parallel Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 863-891

  Liu, Zhen ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Heuristics for multiprocessor scheduling; Interprocessor communication; Makespan; Multiprocessor task; Parallel computation; Parallel task; Task duplication; Worst care error bound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING; WORST CAST ERROR BOUNDS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032097863     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(98)00037-4     Document Type: Article

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