Energy-efficient stochastic task scheduling on heterogeneous computing systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2867-2876

  Li, Kenli ^a   Tang, Xiaoyong ^a,b   Li, Keqin ^a,c  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bag of tasks; dynamic voltage frequency scaling; energy consumption; heterogeneous computing system; probability; schedule length; stochastic task scheduling

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

BAG-OF-TASKS; FREQUENCY-SCALING; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEM; SCHEDULE LENGTH; STOCHASTIC TASK;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84904129079     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.270     Document Type: Article

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