An Evolutionary Technique for Performance-Energy-Temperature Optimized Scheduling of Parallel Tasks on Multi-Core Processors

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 668-681

  Sheikh, Hafiz Fahad ^a   Ahmad, Ishfaq ^a   Fan, Dongrui ^b  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy efficient computing; evolutionary algorithms; static scheduling; task allocation; task graphs; thermal efficient computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MULTICORE PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TURNAROUND TIME;

ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING; STATIC SCHEDULING; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK GRAPH; THERMAL-EFFICIENT COMPUTING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84962377297     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2015.2421352     Document Type: Article

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