Evaluating the EASY-backfill job scheduling of static workloads on clusters

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 64-73

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

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTITASKING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER CLUSTERING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; JOB SCHEDULER; JOB SCHEDULING; JOB SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; LINUX CLUSTERING; MPI APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL JOBS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE RESULTS;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 47349122959     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2007.4629218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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