Non-evolutionary algorithm for scheduling dependent tasks in distributed heterogeneous computing environments

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1035-1046

  Boyer, Wayne F ^a   Hura, Gurdeep S ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependent task scheduling; Distributed heterogeneous computing; Heterogeneous processing; Matching and scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MAPPING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING;

DEPENDENT TASK SCHEDULING; DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING (DHC); HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING; MATCHING AND SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 23744516269     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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