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In the Scheduling Machines with Capacity Constraints problem, we are given k identical machines, each of which can process at most m_i jobs. M jobs are also given, where job j has a non-negative processing time length t_j >= 0. The task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Chi Zhang , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu , Jing Liu

We study parallel algorithms for the minimization of Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). In particular, we implement four different massively parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Our results confirm the expectations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jan Martens , Anton Wijs

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a widely applicable and popular approach to estimating unknown parameters of mechanistic models. As ABC analyses are computationally expensive, parallelization on high-performance infrastructure is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-02 Emad Alamoudi , Felipe Reck , Nils Bundgaard , Frederik Graw , Lutz Brusch , Jan Hasenauer , Yannik Schälte

Over the past few years, self-attention is shining in the field of deep learning, especially in the domain of natural language processing(NLP). Its impressive effectiveness, along with ubiquitous implementations, have aroused our interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mingfei Yu , Masahiro Fujita

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

Stochastic equations play an important role in computational science, due to their ability to treat a wide variety of complex statistical problems. However, current algorithms are strongly limited by their sampling variance, which scales…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Bogdan Opanchuk , Simon Kiesewetter , Peter D. Drummond

Parallel algorithms designed for simulation and performance evaluation of single-server tandem queueing systems with both infinite and finite buffers are presented. The algorithms exploit a simple computational procedure based on recursive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Sergei M. Ermakov , Nikolai K. Krivulin

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

Large-scale genomic workflows used in precision medicine can process datasets spanning tens to hundreds of gigabytes per sample, leading to high memory spikes, intensive disk I/O, and task failures due to out-of-memory errors. Simple static…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Daniel Mas Montserrat , Ray Verma , Míriam Barrabés , Francisco M. de la Vega , Carlos D. Bustamante , Alexander G. Ioannidis

Previous parallel sorting algorithms do not scale to the largest available machines, since they either have prohibitive communication volume or prohibitive critical path length. We describe algorithms that are a viable compromise and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Michael Axtmann , Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

We resolve the space complexity of linear sketches for approximating the maximum matching problem in dynamic graph streams where the stream may include both edge insertion and deletion. Specifically, we show that for any $\epsilon > 0$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Coflow scheduling models communication requests in parallel computing frameworks where multiple data flows between shared resources need to be completed before computation can continue. In this paper, we introduce Path-based Coflow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alexander Eckl , Luisa Peter , Maximilian Schiffer , Susanne Albers

Due to the large data volume and number of distinct elements, space is often the bottleneck of many stream processing systems. The data structures used by these systems often consist of counters whose optimization yields significant memory…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ran Ben Basat , Gil Einziger , Bilal Tyah , Shay Vargaftik

Problems involving the efficient arrangement of simple objects, as captured by bin packing and makespan scheduling, are fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. These are well understood in the traditional online and offline cases,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Graham Cormode , Pavel Veselý

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

The maximum coverage problem is to select $k$ sets from a collection of sets such that the cardinality of the union of the selected sets is maximized. We consider $(1-1/e-\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for this NP-hard problem in three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Amit Chakrabarti , Andrew McGregor , Anthony Wirth

The problem presented in this paper is a generalization of the usual coupled-tasks scheduling problem in presence of compatibility constraints. The reason behind this study is the data acquisition problem for a submarine torpedo. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Gilles Simonin , Benoit Darties , Rodolphe Giroudeau , Jean-Claude König

We present semi-streaming algorithms for basic graph problems that have optimal per-edge processing times and therefore surpass all previous semi-streaming algorithms for these tasks. The semi-streaming model, which is appropriate when…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-09-03 Mariano Zelke

This paper gives a brief overview of computation models for data stream processing, and it introduces a new model for multi-pass processing of multiple streams, the so-called mp2s-automata. Two algorithms for solving the set disjointness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Nicole Schweikardt

This paper examines scheduling problem denoted as $P|seq, ser|C_{max}$ in Graham's notation; in other words, scheduling of tasks on parallel identical machines ($P$) with sequence-dependent setups ($seq$) each performed by one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Vilém Heinz , Antonín Novák , Marek Vlk , Zdeněk Hanzálek