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Stochastic restart may drastically reduce the expected run time of a computer algorithm, expedite the completion of a complex search process, or increase the turnover rate of an enzymatic reaction. These diverse first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shlomi Reuveni

This paper proposes important and useful results relating to the minimization of the sum of the flow-time and the tardiness of tasks or jobs with unequal release dates (occurrence date), with application to maintenance planning and…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 K. Adjallah , K. Adzakpa

Weighted flow time is a fundamental and very well-studied objective function in scheduling. In this paper, we study the setting of a single machine with preemptions. The input consists of a set of jobs, characterized by their processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lars Rohwedder , Andreas Wiese

This paper studies the scheduling of jobs of different families on parallel machines with qualification constraints. Originating from semiconductor manufacturing, this constraint imposes a time threshold between the execution of two jobs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Margaux Nattaf , Arnaud Malapert

We discuss one of the most fundamental scheduling problem of processing jobs on a single machine to minimize the weighted flow time (weighted response time). Our main result is a $O(\log P)$-competitive algorithm, where $P$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Yossi Azar , Noam Touitou

An important objective in scheduling literature is to minimize the sum of weighted flow times. We are given a set of jobs where each job is characterized by a release time, a processing time, and a weight. Our goal is to find a preemptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Alexander Armbruster , Lars Rohwedder , Andreas Wiese

The ever-increasing gap between compute and I/O performance in HPC platforms, together with the development of novel NVMe storage devices (NVRAM), led to the emergence of the burst buffer concept - an intermediate persistent storage layer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jan Kopanski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Recent NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can execute multiple kernels concurrently. On these GPUs, the thread block scheduler (TBS) uses the FIFO policy to schedule their thread blocks. We show that FIFO leaves performance to chance,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Sreepathi Pai , R. Govindarajan , Matthew J. Thazhuthaveetil

The First-Come First-Served (FCFS) scheduling policy is the most popular scheduling algorithm used in practice. Furthermore, its usage is theoretically validated: for light-tailed job size distributions, FCFS has weakly optimal asymptotic…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Isaac Grosof , Kunhe Yang , Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

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

Biological events are often initiated when a random "searcher" finds a "target," which is called a first passage time (FPT). In some biological systems involving multiple searchers, an important timescale is the time it takes the slowest…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Sean D Lawley , Joshua Johnson

We consider the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs to minimize mean response time of an M/G/1 queue. When we know each job's size, the shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) policy is optimal. Unfortunately, in many settings we do…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

In this paper I have study to Reduce the time Complexity of Earliest Deadline First (EDF), a global scheduling scheme for Earliest Deadline First in Real Time System tasks on a Multiprocessors system. Several admission control algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Jagbeer Singh

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 consider the online problem of minimizing weighted flow-time on unrelated machines. Although much is known about this problem in the resource-augmentation setting, these results assume that jobs can be preempted. We give the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Jason Li

We consider the problem of scheduling non preemptively a set of jobs on parallel identical machines with prior setup operations on a single shared server, where the objective is to minimise the makespan. We develop an arc-flow formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Alessandro Druetto , Andrea Grosso , Jully Jeunet , Fabio Salassa

Serverless computing is a promising approach for edge computing since its inherent features, e.g., lightweight virtualization, rapid scalability, and economic efficiency. However, previous studies have not studied well the issues of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiong Lou , Zhiqing Tang , Shijing Yuan , Jie Li , Chengtao Wu , Weijia Jia

We study online scheduling problems on a single processor that can be viewed as extensions of the well-studied problem of minimizing total weighted flow time. In particular, we provide a framework of analysis that is derived by duality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Spyros Angelopoulos , Giorgio Lucarelli , Nguyen Kim Thang

In the weighted flow-time problem on a single machine, we are given a set of n jobs, where each job has a processing requirement p_j, release date r_j and weight w_j. The goal is to find a preemptive schedule which minimizes the sum of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Jatin Batra , Naveen Garg , Amit Kumar

We consider the precedence-constrained scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time. For a single machine several $2$-approximation algorithms are known, which are based on linear programming and network flows. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Sven Jäger , Philipp Warode