An adaptive task creation strategy for work-stealing scheduling

Proceedings of the 2010 CGO - The 8th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 266-277

  Wang, Lei ^a,b   Cui, Huimin ^a,b   Duan, Yuelu ^c   Lu, Fang ^a,b   Feng, Xiaobing ^a   Yew, Pen Chung ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

adaptive; backtracking search; task granularity; work stealing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BACKTRACKING SEARCH; DATA COPYING; KEY TECHNIQUES; LOAD-BALANCING; MEMORY SPACE; MULTI-THREADING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; WORKING SET;

NETWORK COMPONENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

EID: 77953990150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772954.1772992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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