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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

We present a heavy traffic analysis for a single server queue with renewal arrivals and generally distributed i.i.d. service times, in which the server employs the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) policy. Under typical heavy…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-04 H. Christian Gromoll , Łukasz Kruk , Amber L. Puha

In this paper, we explore how a natural generalization of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) can be a powerful \emph{meta-algorithm} for online scheduling. The meta-algorithm processes jobs to maximally reduce the objective of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Qingyun Chen , Sungjin Im , Aditya Petety

We consider a system of parallel queues where tasks are assigned (dispatched) to one of the available servers upon arrival. The dispatching decision is based on the full state information, i.e., on the sizes of the new and existing jobs. We…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Esa Hyytiä , Samuli Aalto , Aleksi Penttinen

We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexander Lindermayr , Guido Schäfer , Jens Schlöter , Leen Stougie

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

Traditionally, research focusing on the design of routing and staffing policies for service systems has modeled servers as having fixed (possibly heterogeneous) service rates. However, service systems are generally staffed by people.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan , Sherwin Doroudi , Amy R. Ward , Adam Wierman

A well-designed scheduling policy can unlock significant performance improvements with no additional resources. Multiserver SRPT (SRPT-$k$) is known to achieve asymptotically optimal mean response time in the heavy traffic limit, as load…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Izzy Grosof , Daniela Hurtado-Lange

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou

The assessment of a job's Quality of Service (QoS) often revolves around its flow time, also referred to as response time. This study delves into two fundamental objectives for scheduling jobs: the average flow time and the maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tung-Wei Kuo

With multiple identical unit speed servers, the online problem of scheduling jobs that migrate between two phases, limitedly parallelizable or completely sequential, and choosing their respective speeds to minimize the total flow time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rahul Vaze

We consider a distributed server system consisting of a large number of servers, each with limited capacity on multiple resources (CPU, memory, disk, etc.). Jobs with different rewards arrive over time and require certain amounts of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

We consider TSP with time windows and service time. In this problem we receive a sequence of requests for a service at nodes in a metric space and a time window for each request. The goal of the online algorithm is to maximize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Yossi Azar , Adi Vardi

With the increasing popularity of Internet-based services and applications, power efficiency is becoming a major concern for data center operators, as high electricity consumption not only increases greenhouse gas emissions, but also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dmytro Dyachuk , Michele Mazzucco

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

We revisit the classical problem of minimizing the total flow time of jobs on a single machine in the online setting where jobs arrive over time. It has long been known that the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) algorithm is optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anupam Gupta , Haim Kaplan , Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

We present a new online algorithm for profit-oriented scheduling on multiple speed-scalable processors. Moreover, we provide a tight analysis of the algorithm's competitiveness. Our results generalize and improve upon work by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Peter Kling , Peter Pietrzyk

We consider the first, and most well studied, speed scaling problem in the algorithmic literature: where the scheduling quality of service measure is a deadline feasibility constraint, and where the power objective is to minimize the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-03 Ahmed Abousamra , David P. Bunde , Kirk Pruhs

While scheduling and dispatching of computational workloads is a well-investigated subject, only recently has Google provided publicly a vast high-resolution measurement dataset of its cloud workloads. We revisit dispatching and scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mert Yildiz , Alexey Rolich , Andrea Baiocchi

\textit{Weighted shortest processing time first} (WSPT) is one of the best known algorithms for total weighted completion time scheduling problems. For each job $J_j$, it first combines the two independent job parameters weight $w_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Samin Jamalabadi , Uwe Schwiegelshohn