Dynamic scheduling of parallel computations

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 239-252

  Liu, Zhen ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic scheduling; Parallel computation; Random task graph; Schedule length; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347486616     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3975(99)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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