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1999
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance
On many computers, a request to run a job is not serviced immediately but instead is placed in a queue and serviced only when resources are released by preceding jobs. In this pape...
Warren Smith, Valerie E. Taylor, Ian T. Foster
IPPS
2002
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Static Mapping Heuristics for Tasks with Dependencies, Priorities, Deadlines, and Multiple Versions in Heterogeneous Environment
Heterogeneous computing (HC) environments composed of interconnected machines with varied computational capabilities are well suited to meet the computational demands of large, di...
Tracy D. Braun, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. Maci...
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2000
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...