Time and cost-driven scheduling of data parallel tasks in grid workflows

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-120

  Ranaldo, Nadia ^a   Zimeo, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data parallelism; Divisible load; Meta scheduling; Multi constrained matching; Service matchmaking

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

DATA PARALLELISM; DIVISIBLE LOAD; META-SCHEDULING; MULTI-CONSTRAINED MATCHING; SERVICE MATCHMAKING;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 63049118930     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2008.2011299     Document Type: Article

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