Scheduling of a parallel computation-bound application and sequential applications executing concurrently on a cluster - A case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3358, Issue , 2004, Pages 648-655

  Wong, Adam K L ^a   Goscinski, Andrzej M ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; CLUSTER UTILIZATION; CONCURRENT EXECUTION; EXECUTION PERFORMANCE; LEARN+; LOAD-BALANCING; NON-DEDICATED CLUSTER; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; SEQUENTIAL APPLICATIONS; TIME-SEQUENTIAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MULTITASKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

EID: 35048841610     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30566-8_76     Document Type: Article

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