Reliability versus performance for critical applications

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-336

  Girault, Alain ^a   Saule, Érik ^b   Trystram, Denis ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Multi objective optimization; Multi processor scheduling; Reliability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

BEST FITS; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; EXECUTION TIME; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAULT MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSORS; LIST-SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; MAKESPAN; MULTI-PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; POISSON LAWS; RANDOM GRAPHS; RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS; REAL-TIME CONSTRAINTS; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SCHEDULING METHODS; SPATIAL ALLOCATIONS; TASK GRAPHS; TRADE-OFF SOLUTIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 59149105005     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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