Toward a realistic task scheduling model

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 263-275

  Sinnen, Oliver ^a   Sousa, Leonel A ^b   Sandnes, Frode Eika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b INESC ID   (Portugal)

^c OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Concurrent programming; Heterogeneous system model; Parallel processing; Processor involvement; Scheduling and task partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM MODEL; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROCESSOR INVOLVEMENT; REAL PARALLEL SYSTEMS; REALISTIC TASK SCHEDULING MODEL; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TARGET PARALLEL SYSTEM; TASK PARTITIONING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 32044471308     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2006.40     Document Type: Article

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