Dynamic load balancing of unbalanced computations using message passing

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Diñan, James ^a   Olivier, Stephen ^b   Sabin, Gerald ^a   Prins, Jan ^b   Sadayappan, P ^a   Tseng, Chau Wen ^c  

^a The Ohio State University

^b University of North Carolina

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; UNBALANCED COMPUTATIONS; UNBALANCED TREE SEARCH BENCHMARK (UTS);

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 34548771395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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