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JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Wave Scheduler: Scheduling for Faster Turnaround Time in Peer-Based Desktop Grid Systems
The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...
Dayi Zhou, Virginia Mary Lo
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Extended Evaluation of Two-Phase Scheduling Methods for Animation Rendering
Recently HP Labs engaged in a joint project with DreamWorks Animation to develop a Utility Rendering Service that was used to render part of the computer-animated feature film Shr...
Yunhong Zhou, Terence Kelly, Janet L. Wiener, Eric...
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling User Runtime Estimates
User estimates of job runtimes have emerged as an important component of the workload on parallel machines, and can have a significant impact on how a scheduler treats different ...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
AnthillSched: A Scheduling Strategy for Irregular and Iterative I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs
Irregular and iterative I/O-intensive jobs need a different approach from parallel job schedulers. The focus in this case is not only the processing requirements anymore: memory, ...
Luís Fabrício Wanderley Góes,...
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
ScoPred-Scalable User-Directed Performance Prediction Using Complexity Modeling and Historical Data
Using historical information to predict future runs of parallel jobs has shown to be valuable in job scheduling. Trends toward more flexible jobscheduling techniques such as adapt...
Benjamin J. Lafreniere, Angela C. Sodan
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Pitfalls in Parallel Job Scheduling Evaluation
There are many choices to make when evaluating the performance of a complex system. In the context of parallel job scheduling, one must decide what workload to use and what measur...
Eitan Frachtenberg, Dror G. Feitelson
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Unfairness Metrics for Space-Sharing Parallel Job Schedulers
Sociology, computer networking and operations research provide evidence of the importance of fairness in queuing disciplines. Currently, there is no accepted model for characteriz...
Gerald Sabin, P. Sadayappan
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Scheduling Moldable BSP Tasks
Our main goal in this paper is to study the scheduling of parallel BSP tasks on clusters of computers. We focus our attention on special characteristics of BSP tasks, which can use...
Pierre-François Dutot, Marco Aurélio...
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Workload Analysis of a Cluster in a Grid Environment
With Grids, we are able to share computing resources and to provide for scientific communities a global transparent access to local facilities. In such an environment the problems...
Emmanuel Medernach
JSSPP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Co-scheduling with User-Settable Reservations
As grid computing becomes more commonplace, so does the importance of coscheduling these geographically distributed resourcest. Negotiating resource management and scheduling deci...
Kenneth Yoshimoto, Patricia A. Kovatch, Phil Andre...