A high performance algorithm for static task scheduling in heterogeneous distributed computing systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-409

  Daoud, Mohammad I ^a   Kharma, Nawwaf ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graph; Heterogeneous systems; Heuristics; Parallel processing; Task scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; TASK SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749157730     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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