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A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…
Co-flows model a modern scheduling setting that is commonly found in a variety of applications in distributed and cloud computing. A stochastic co-flow task contains a set of parallel flows with randomly distributed sizes. Further, many…
Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…
Applications in data-parallel computing typically consist of multiple stages. In each stage, a set of intermediate parallel data flows (Coflow) is produced and transferred between servers to enable starting of next stage. While there has…
This paper addresses the challenging scheduling problem of coflows with release times, with the objective of minimizing the total weighted completion time. Previous literature has predominantly concentrated on establishing the scheduling…
In distributed computing frameworks like MapReduce, Spark, and Dyrad, a coflow is a set of flows transferring data between two stages of a job. The job cannot start its next stage unless all flows in the coflow finish. To improve the…
The coflow scheduling problem is considered: given an input/output switch with each port having a fixed capacity, find a scheduling algorithm that minimizes the weighted sum of the coflow completion times respecting the port capacities,…
We consider routing in reconfigurable networks, which is also known as coflow scheduling in the literature. The algorithmic literature generally (perhaps implicitly) assumes that the amount of data to be transferred is large. Thus the…
Parallel machine scheduling has been extensively studied in the past decades, with applications ranging from production planning to job processing in large computing clusters. In this work we study some of these fundamental optimization…
Scheduling a set of jobs over a collection of machines is a fundamental problem that needs to be solved millions of times a day in various computing platforms: in operating systems, in large data clusters, and in data centers. Along with…
This paper investigates co-scheduling algorithms for processing a set of parallel applications. Instead of executing each application one by one, using a maximum degree of parallelism for each of them, we aim at scheduling several…
Machine scheduling problems involving conflict jobs can be seen as a constrained version of the classical scheduling problem, in which some jobs are conflict in the sense that they cannot be proceeded simultaneously on different machines.…
We study the problem of scheduling $n$ independent moldable tasks on $m$ processors that arises in large-scale parallel computations. When tasks are monotonic, the best known result is a $(\frac{3}{2}+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…
In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…
We consider the online buffer minimization in multiprocessor systems with conflicts problem (in short, the buffer minimization problem) in the recently introduced flow model. In an online fashion, workloads arrive on some of the $n$…
In this paper, we design the first streaming algorithms for the problem of multitasking scheduling on parallel machines with shared processing. In one pass, our streaming approximation schemes can provide an approximate value of the optimal…
We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…
In the past decade, increasingly network scheduling techniques have been proposed to boost the distributed application performance. Flow-level metrics, such as flow completion time (FCT), are based on the abstraction of flows yet they…
Many emerging distributed applications, including big data analytics, generate a number of flows that concurrently transport data across data center networks. To improve their performance, it is required to account for the behavior of a…
Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in shared-nothing parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or disk(s)) and space-shared (e.g., memory) resources and…