Co-ordinated coscheduling in time-sharing clusters through a generic framework

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 84-91

  Agarwal, Saurabh ^a   Choi, Gyu Sang ^b   Das, Chita R ^b   Yoo, Andy B ^c   Nagar, Shailabh ^d  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coscheduling; Generic framework; Linux cluster; Multiprogramming; Time sharing; VIA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COBALT COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC LOADS; LINUX; MULTIPROGRAMMING;

CO-SCHEDULING; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; LINUX CLUSTERS; TIME-SHARING; VIA;

COBALT;

EID: 33745170235     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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