Backtracking-based load balancing

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 55-64

  Hiraishi, Tasuku ^a   Yasugi, Masahiro ^b   Umatani, Seiji ^b   Yuasa, Taiichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backtrack search; Backtracking; Load balancing; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BACKTRACK SEARCH; BACKTRACKING; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; DUAL CORE PROCESSORS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; LOCALITY OF REFERENCE; PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT; PROBLEM SOLVERS;

MULTICORE PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70350602919     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1594835.1504187     Document Type: Article

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