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Co-scheduling of jobs in data-centers is a challenging scenario, where jobs can compete for resources yielding to severe slowdowns or failed executions. Efficient job placement on environments where resources are shared requires awareness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 David Buchaca Prats , Joan Marcual , Josep Lluís Berral , David Carrera

We present an analysis of large-scale load balancing systems, where the processing time distribution of tasks depends on both the task and server types. Our study focuses on the asymptotic regime, where the number of servers and task types…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Zhisheng Zhao , Debankur Mukherjee

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

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) is being actively investigated as a means of scaling the number of qubits across multiple connected quantum devices. This includes quantum circuit compilation and execution management on multiple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Gongyu Ni , Davide Ferrari , Lester Ho , Michele Amoretti

We consider the partitioned scheduling problem of multimode real-time systems upon identical multiprocessor platforms. During the execution of a multimode system, the system can change from one mode to another such that the current task set…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Joël Goossens , Pascal Richard

Proper management of resources whose arrival and consumption are subject to environmental randomness is an intrinsic process in both natural and artificial systems. This phenomenon can be modeled as a queuing process whose arrival…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 José Giral-Barajas , Paul C. Bressloff

This paper addresses the problem of parallelizing computations to study non-linear dynamics in large networks of non-locally coupled oscillators using heterogeneous computing resources. The proposed approach can be applied to a variety of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-04 Oleksandr Sudakov , Volodymyr Maistrenko

We consider the pull-based broadcast scheduling model. In this model, there are n unit-sized pages of information available at the server. Requests arrive over time at the server asking for a specific page. When the server transmits a page,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sungjin Im , Maxim Sviridenko

The performance of large-scale distributed compute systems is adversely impacted by stragglers when the execution time of a job is uncertain. To manage stragglers, we consider a multi-fork approach for job scheduling, where additional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ajay Badita , Parimal Parag , Vaneet Aggarwal

In scheduling problems, deterministic task durations are often assumed. This usually does not capture reality and may lead to schedules that are not robust to (small) changes to these task lengths. The use of stochastic task durations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Philip de Bruin , Bram Elderhorst , Marjan van den Akker , Han Hoogeveen

This paper focuses on the identical parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup time, with special attention paid to the uncertainty of processing time. In this paper, a mathematical model of the parallel machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Lei Liu , Canrong Zhang

The essence of distributed computing systems is how to schedule incoming requests and how to allocate all computing nodes to minimize both time and computation costs. In this paper, we propose a cost-aware optimal scheduling and allocation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Ren , Eleftherios Vlahakis , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos , Raphael Jungers

We contribute the first randomized algorithm that is an integration of arbitrarily many deterministic algorithms for the fully online multiprocessor scheduling with testing problem. When there are two machines, we show that with two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Lusheng Wang

Modern platforms are using accelerators in conjunction with standard processing units in order to reduce the running time of specific operations, such as matrix operations, and improve their performance. Scheduling on such hybrid platforms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vincent Fagnon , Imed Kacem , Giorgio Lucarelli , Bertrand Simon

Task replication has recently been advocated as a practical solution to reduce latencies in parallel systems. In addition to several convincing empirical studies, some others provide analytical results, yet under some strong assumptions…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Felix Poloczek , Florin Ciucu

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

The execution time of programs is a key element in many areas of computer science, mainly those where achieving good performance (e.g., scheduling in cloud computing) or a predictable one (e.g., meeting deadlines in embedded systems) is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha

We first consider the static problem of allocating resources to ( i.e. , scheduling) multiple distributed application framework s, possibly with different priorities and server preferences , in a private cloud with heterogeneous servers.…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-01-01 George Kesidis , Yuquan Shan , Yujia Wang , Bhuvan Urgaonkar , Jalal Khamse-Ashari , Ioanns Lambadaris

The multiprocessor Fixed-Job Priority (FJP) scheduling of real-time systems is studied. An important property for the schedulability analysis, the predictability (regardless to the execution times), is studied for heterogeneous…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2009-08-26 Liliana Cucu-Grosjean , Joël Goossens

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter