A revisit of fast greedy heuristics for mapping a class of independent tasks onto heterogeneous computing systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 695-714

  Luo, Ping ^a   Lü, Kevin ^b   Shi, Zhongzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greedy heuristic; Heterogeneous computing; Independent tasks; Task consistency; Task priority graph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FAST GREEDY HEURISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; MAPPING HEURISTIC; TASK EXECUTION; TASK PRIORITY GRAPHS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 34247488367     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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