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We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Hyeonjoong Cho , Arvind Easwaran

Task graphs provide a simple way to describe scientific workflows (sets of tasks with dependencies) that can be executed on both HPC clusters and in the cloud. An important aspect of executing such graphs is the used scheduling algorithm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jakub Beránek , Stanislav Böhm , Vojtěch Cima

In a distributed computing system operating according to the map-shuffle-reduce framework, coding data prior to storage can be useful both to reduce the latency caused by straggling servers and to decrease the inter-server communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone

We study the precedence-constrained resource scheduling problem [SICOMP'75]. There are $n$ jobs where each job takes a certain time to finish and has a resource requirement throughout the execution time. There are precedence among the jobs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rathish Das , Hao Sun

Real-time systems are intrinsic components of many pivotal applications, such as self-driving vehicles, aerospace and defense systems. The trend in these applications is to incorporate multiple tasks onto fewer, more powerful hardware…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-03 V. Gabriel Moyano , Zain A. H. Hammadeh , Selma Saidi , Daniel Lüdtke

We consider the online scheduling problem of moldable task graphs on multiprocessor systems for minimizing the overall completion time (or makespan). Moldable job scheduling has been widely studied in the literature, in particular when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun

We consider the problem of scheduling multiprocessor jobs to minimize the total completion time under the given energy budget. Each multiprocessor job requires more than one processor at the same moment of time. Processors may operate at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Alexander Kononov , Yulia Kovalenko

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

It is well known that size-based scheduling policies, which take into account job size (i.e., the time it takes to run them), can perform very desirably in terms of both response time and fairness. Unfortunately, the requirement of knowing…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Matteo Dell'Amico

Several works related to spatial crowdsourcing have been proposed in the direction where the task executers are to perform the tasks within the stipulated deadlines. Though the deadlines are set, it may be a practical scenario that majority…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Naren Debnath , Sajal Mukhopadhyay , Fatos Xhafa

Assigning jobs onto identical machines with the objective to minimize the maximal load is one of the most basic problems in combinatorial optimization. Motivated by product planing and data placement, we study a natural extension called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack

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

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

Large-scale distributed computing systems face two major bottlenecks that limit their scalability: straggler delay caused by the variability of computation times at different worker nodes and communication bottlenecks caused by shuffling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

With the rapid growth in computing power demand, cloud native networks have emerged as a promising solution to address the challenges of efficient resource coordination, particularly in coping with the dynamic fluctuations of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hao Jiang , Meng Qin , Ruijie Kuai , Dandan Liang , Yue Gao

Modern data centers serve workloads which are capable of exploiting parallelism. When a job parallelizes across multiple servers it will complete more quickly, but jobs receive diminishing returns from being allocated additional servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Benjamin Berg , Rein Vesilo , Mor Harchol-Balter

A multiple server setting is considered, where each server has tunable speed, and increasing the speed incurs an energy cost. Jobs arrive to a single queue, and each job has two types of sub-tasks, map and reduce, and a {\bf precedence}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

Slow working nodes, known as stragglers, can greatly reduce the speed of distributed computation. Coded matrix multiplication is a recently introduced technique that enables straggler-resistant distributed multiplication of large matrices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shahrzad Kiani , Nuwan Ferdinand , Stark C. Draper

Performance of supercomputer depends on the quality of resource manager, one of its functions is assignment of jobs to the nodes of clusters or MPP computers. Parts of parallel programs interact with each other with different intensity, and…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-12-26 A. V. Baranov , E. A. Kiselev , B. M. Shabanov , A. A. Sorokin , P. N. Telegin

When parallelizing a set of jobs across many servers, one must balance a trade-off between granting priority to short jobs and maintaining the overall efficiency of the system. When the goal is to minimize the mean flow time of a set of…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Benjamin Berg , Rein Vesilo , Mor Harchol-Balter