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We study the problem of preemptive scheduling of n equal-length jobs with given release times on m identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the average flow time. Recently, Brucker and Kravchenko proved that the optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Baptiste , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Francis Sourd

Speed-robust scheduling is the following two-stage problem of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ uniformly related machines. In the first stage, the algorithm receives the value of $m$ and the processing times of $n$ jobs; it has to partition the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Josef Minařík , Jiří Sgall

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Multi-server jobs that request multiple computing resources and hold onto them during their execution dominate modern computing clusters. When allocating the multi-type resources to several co-located multi-server jobs simultaneously in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zhengzhe Xiang , Xueqiang Yan , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

We consider the problem of online job scheduling on a single machine or multiple unrelated machines with general job/machine-dependent cost functions. In this model, each job $j$ has a processing requirement (length) $v_{ij}$ and arrives…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 S. Rasoul Etesami

We study the classical scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan of a set of unit size jobs with precedence constraints on parallel identical machines. Research on the problem dates back to the landmark paper by Graham from 1966 who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Syamantak Das , Andreas Wiese

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

In the Online Machine Covering problem jobs, defined by their sizes, arrive one by one and have to be assigned to $m$ parallel and identical machines, with the goal of maximizing the load of the least-loaded machine. In this work, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Maximilian Janke

The scheduling literature has traditionally focused on a single type of resource (e.g., computing nodes). However, scientific applications in modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems process large amounts of data, hence have diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun , Padma Raghavan

We introduce a novel adversarial model for scheduling with explorable uncertainty. In this model, the processing time of a job can potentially be reduced (by an a priori unknown amount) by testing the job. Testing a job $j$ takes one unit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Christoph Dürr , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Julie Meißner

We study shared processor scheduling of $\textit{multiprocessor}$ weighted jobs where each job can be executed on its private processor and simultaneously on possibly $\textit{many}$ processors shared by all jobs in order to reduce their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak

Real-life parallel machine scheduling problems can be characterized by: (i) limited information about the exact task duration at scheduling time, and (ii) an opportunity to reschedule the remaining tasks each time a task processing is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Izack Cohen , Krzysztof Postek , Shimrit Shtern

Motivated by mail delivery scheduling problems arising in Royal Mail, we study a generalization of the fundamental makespan scheduling P||Cmax problem which we call the bounded job start scheduling problem. Given a set of jobs, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dimitrios Letsios , Jeremy T. Bradley , Suraj G , Ruth Misener , Natasha Page

Scheduling with testing falls under the umbrella of the research on optimization with explorable uncertainty. In this model, each job has an upper limit on its processing time that can be decreased to a lower limit (possibly unknown) by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Minming Li , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

We consider scheduling problems over scenarios where the goal is to find a single assignment of the jobs to the machines which performs well over all possible scenarios. Each scenario is a subset of jobs that must be executed in that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Esteban Feuerstein , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Anke van Zuylen

This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty, or SUU, in which the execution of each job may fail probabilistically. This problem is motivated by the increasing use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-02-19 Christopher Crutchfield , Zoran Dzunic , Jeremy T. Fineman , David R. Karger , Jacob Scott

The efficient scheduling of multi-task jobs across multiprocessor systems has become increasingly critical with the rapid expansion of computational systems. This challenge, known as Multiprocessor Multitask Scheduling (MPMS), is essential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wenxin Li

The Map-Reduce computing framework rose to prominence with datasets of such size that dozens of machines on a single cluster were needed for individual jobs. As datasets approach the exabyte scale, a single job may need distributed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Riley Murray , Samir Khuller , Megan Chao

Modern computing workloads are often composed of parallelizable jobs. A parallelizable job can be completed more quickly when run on additional servers. However, each job can only use a limited number of servers, known as its…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Benjamin Berg , Benjamin Moseley , Weina Wang , Mor Harchol-Balter

In this paper, we introduce a new online scheduling framework for minimizing total weighted completion time in a general setting. The framework is inspired by the work of Hall et al. [Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol 22(3):513-544,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Samir Khuller , Jingling Li , Pascal Sturmfels , Kevin Sun , Prayaag Venkat