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This paper investigates co-scheduling algorithms for processing a set of parallel applications. Instead of executing each application one by one, using a maximum degree of parallelism for each of them, we aim at scheduling several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Guillaume Aupy , Manu Shantharam , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Padma Raghavan

We propose a unifying framework based on configuration linear programs and randomized rounding, for different energy optimization problems in the dynamic speed-scaling setting. We apply our framework to various scheduling and routing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Evripidis Bampis , Alexander Kononov , Dimitrios Letsios , Giorgio Lucarelli , Maxim Sviridenko

Over the years, many multiprocessor locking protocols have been designed and analyzed. However, the performance of these protocols highly depends on how the tasks are partitioned and prioritized and how the resources are shared locally and…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jian-Jia Chen , Georg von der Brüggen , Junjie Shi , Niklas Uete

In this work we study the problem of scheduling tasks with dependencies in multiprocessor architectures where processors have different speeds. We present the preemptive algorithm "Save-Energy" that given a schedule of tasks it post…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Georgios Giannoulis , Paul G. Spirakis

We study the problem of scheduling $n$ independent moldable tasks on $m$ processors that arises in large-scale parallel computations. When tasks are monotonic, the best known result is a $(\frac{3}{2}+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau

We consider the problem of energy-efficient scheduling across multiple processors with a power-down mechanism. In this setting a set of $n$ jobs with individual release times, deadlines, and processing volumes must be scheduled across $m$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Gunther Bidlingmaier

Solving multiscale diffusion problems is often computationally expensive due to the spatial and temporal discretization challenges arising from high-contrast coefficients. To address this issue, a partially explicit temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Yating Wang , Zhengya Yang , Wing Tat Leung

We consider the two-parallel machines scheduling problem, with the aim of minimizing the maximum lateness and the makespan. Formally, the problem is defined as follows. We have to schedule a set J of n jobs on two identical machines. Each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Gais Alhadi , Imed Kacem , Pierre Laroche , Izzeldin M. Osman

This thesis develops signal-processing algorithms and implementation schemes under constraints of minimal parallelism and memory space, with the goal of improving energy efficiency of low-power computing hardware. We propose (i) a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Sergey Salishev

We consider some flow-time minimization problems in the unrelated machines setting. In this setting, there is a set of $m$ machines and a set of $n$ jobs, and each job $j$ has a machine dependent processing time of $p_{ij}$ on machine $i$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Nikhil Bansal , Janardhan Kulkarni

We study the problem of minimizing total completion time on parallel machines subject to varying processing capacity. In this paper, we develop an approximation scheme for the problem under the data stream model where the input data is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma , Jens Schulz , Andreas Wiese

We consider the online buffer minimization in multiprocessor systems with conflicts problem (in short, the buffer minimization problem) in the recently introduced flow model. In an online fashion, workloads arrive on some of the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niklas Haas , Sören Schmitt , Rob van Stee

Dynamic Voltage Scaling techniques allow the processor to set its speed dynamically in order to reduce energy consumption. In the continuous model, the processor can run at any speed, while in the discrete model, the processor can only run…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Minming Li , Frances F. Yao , Hao Yuan

Interval scheduling is a basic problem in the theory of algorithms and a classical task in combinatorial optimization. We develop a set of techniques for partitioning and grouping jobs based on their starting and ending times, that enable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Spencer Compton , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Scheduling a set of jobs over a collection of machines is a fundamental problem that needs to be solved millions of times a day in various computing platforms: in operating systems, in large data clusters, and in data centers. Along with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li

We consider the problem of sampling $n$ numbers from the range $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ without replacement on modern architectures. The main result is a simple divide-and-conquer scheme that makes sequential algorithms more cache efficient and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Peter Sanders , Sebastian Lamm , Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Emanuel Schrade , Carsten Dachsbacher

We consider a natural generalization of classical scheduling problems in which using a time unit for processing a job causes some time-dependent cost which must be paid in addition to the standard scheduling cost. We study the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Roman Rischke , Leen Stougie , José Verschae

We consider a task graph to be executed on a set of processors. We assume that the mapping is given, say by an ordered list of tasks to execute on each processor, and we aim at optimizing the energy consumption while enforcing a prescribed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit , Fanny Dufossé , Yves Robert

This paper investigates the execution of tree-shaped task graphs using multiple processors. Each edge of such a tree represents a large IO file. A task can only be executed if all input and output files fit into memory, and a file can only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Loris Marchal , Oliver Sinnen , Frédéric Vivien