Task assignment based on prioritising traffic flows

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3544, Issue , 2005, Pages 415-430

  Broberg, James ^a   Tari, Zahir ^a   Zeephongsekul, Panlop ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heavy tailed workloads; Load balancing; Load sharing; Scheduling policies; Supercomputing; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; SCHEDULING; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

HEAVY-TAILED WORKLOADS; LOAD BALANCING; LOAD SHARING; SCHEDULING POLICIES; SUPERCOMPUTING; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 26444587455     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11516798_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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