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In this paper we present a parallel for-loop scheduler which is based on work-stealing principles but runs under a completely cooperative scheme. POSIX signals are used by idle threads to interrupt left-behind workers, which in turn decide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Georgios Rokos , Gerard J. Gorman , Paul H. J. Kelly

We study in this paper the impact of communication latency on the classical Work Stealing load balancing algorithm. Our paper extends the reference model in which we introduce a latency parameter. By using a theoretical analysis and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Nicolas Gast , Mohammed Khatiri , Denis Trystram , Frederic Wagner

Lock-free concurrent algorithms guarantee that some concurrent operation will always make progress in a finite number of steps. Yet programmers prefer to treat concurrent code as if it were wait-free, guaranteeing that all operations always…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Dan Alistarh , Keren Censor-Hillel , Nir Shavit

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

Developing CPU scheduling algorithms and understanding their impact in practice can be difficult and time consuming due to the need to modify and test operating system kernel code and measure the resulting performance on a consistent…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Neetu Goel , R. B. Garg

We consider energy-efficient scheduling on multiprocessors, where the speed of each processor can be individually scaled, and a processor consumes power $s^{\alpha}$ when running at speed $s$, for $\alpha>1$. A scheduling algorithm needs to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Hongyang Sun , Yuxiong He , Wen-Jing Hsu , Rui Fan

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

We currently see a steady rise in the usage and size of multiprocessor systems, and so the community is evermore interested in developing fast parallel processing algorithms. However, most algorithms require a synchronization mechanism,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Arya Tanmay Gupta

Owing to data-intensive large-scale applications, distributed computation systems have gained significant recent interest, due to their ability of running such tasks over a large number of commodity nodes in a time efficient manner. One of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the service industries where workers frequently perform multiple tasks by switching from one task to another. Hall, Leung and Li (Discrete Applied…

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

Scheduling with testing is a recent online problem within the framework of explorable uncertainty motivated by environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. Jobs have an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

Many task-parallel applications can benefit from attempting to execute tasks in a specific order, as for instance indicated by priorities associated with the tasks. We present three lock-free data structures for priority scheduling with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Martin Wimmer , Daniel Cederman , Francesco Versaci , Jesper Larsson Träff , Philippas Tsigas

Supercomputers have revolutionized how industries and scientific fields process large amounts of data. These machines group hundreds or thousands of computing nodes working together to execute time-consuming programs that require a large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-24 João B. Fernandes , Ítalo A. S. de Assis , Idalmis M. S. Martins , Tiago Barros , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

We consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC '01, SODA '03, FOCS '18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yossi Azar , Stefano Leonardi , Noam Touitou

We propose throughput and cost optimal job scheduling algorithms in cloud computing platforms offering Infrastructure as a Service. We first consider online migration and propose job scheduling algorithms to minimize job migration and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haritha K , Chandramani Singh

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

We study in this paper the impact of communication latency on the classical Work Stealing load balancing algorithm. Our approach considers existing performance models and the underlying algorithms. We introduce a latency parameter in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Mohammed Khatiri , Denis Trystram , Frederic Wagner

Task graphs have been studied for decades as a foundation for scheduling irregular parallel applications and incorporated in programming models such as OpenMP. While many high-performance parallel libraries are based on task graphs, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Seonmyeong Bak , Oscar Hernandez , Mark Gates , Piotr Luszczek , Vivek Sarkar

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

In this paper we study a single machine scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing the sum of completion times. Each of the given jobs is either short or long. However the processing times are initially hidden to the algorithm, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Fanny Dufossé , Christoph Dürr , Noël Nadal , Denis Trystram , Óscar C. Vásquez