Scheduling strategies for master-slave tasking on heterogeneous processor platforms

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 319-330

  Banino, Cyril ^a,d   Beaumont, Olivier ^a   Carter, Larry ^b   Ferrante, Jeanne ^b   Legrand, Arnaud ^c   Robert, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIV LYON   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bandwidth centric; Divisible load; Heterogeneous; Scheduling; Steady state

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH-CENTRIC SCHEDULING STRATEGY; MASTER-SLAVE TASKING; TASK SCHEDULING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942436288     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2004.1271181     Document Type: Article

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