A scalable task duplication based scheduling algorithm for heterogeneous systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 383-390

  Ranaweera, Samantha ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Mobile computing; NP hard problem; Optimal scheduling; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Workstations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DIRECTED GRAPHS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

CONCURRENT COMPUTING; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HOMOGENEOUS PROCESSORS; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING SCHEMES;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84949502106     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2000.876154     Document Type: Article

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