A Comparison of Eleven Static Heuristics for Mapping a Class of Independent Tasks onto Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 810-837

  Braun, Tracy D ^a   Siegel, Howard Jay ^a   Beck, Noah ^a   Bölöni, Ladislau L ^b   Maheswaran, Muthucumaru ^c   Reuther, Albert I ^a   Robertson, James P ^d   Theys, Mitchell D ^e   Yao, Bin ^a   Hensgen, Debra ^f   Freund, Richard F ^g  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CPlane Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^e 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^f OpenTV   (United States)

^g NOEMIX Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

A*; Genetic Algorithm; Heterogeneous computing; Mapping heuristics; Metatasks; Simulated annealing; Static matching; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038031248     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1714     Document Type: Article

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