Scheduling for heterogeneous Systems using constrained critical paths

Parallel Computing

Volumn 38, Issue 4-5, 2012, Pages 175-193

  Khan, Minhaj Ahmad ^a  

^a BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous scheduling; List scheduling; Parallel applications; Scheduling algorithms; Static scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX COMPUTING; CRITICAL PATHS; EXECUTION TIME; FINISH TIME; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; LIST-SCHEDULING; MULTIPLE PROCESSING; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; NP COMPLETE; OPTIMAL SCHEDULE; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL PROGRAM; PROCESSING ELEMENTS; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; STATIC SCHEDULING; TASK GRAPH;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863421985     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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