Online scheduling of parallel programs on heterogeneous systems with applications to Cilk

Theory of Computing Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 289-304

  Bender, Michael A ^a   Rabin, Michael O ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL PROGRAMS;

ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036590677     PISSN: 14324350     EISSN: 14330490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00224-002-1055-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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