On the design of communication-aware fault-tolerant scheduling algorithms for precedence constrained tasks in grid computing systems with dedicated communication devices

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-294

  Zheng, Qin ^a,b   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Communication delay; Directed acyclic graphs; Grid computing; Primary backup; Replication cost; Response time

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING; INFORMATION THEORY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING;

COMMUNICATION DELAY; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; PRIMARY-BACKUP; REPLICATION COST; RESPONSE TIME;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 59149085680     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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