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Nowadays large-scale distributed machine learning systems have been deployed to support various analytics and intelligence services in IT firms. To train a large dataset and derive the prediction/inference model, e.g., a deep neural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Yixin Bao , Yanghua Peng , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li

In order to improve system performance efficiently, a number of systems choose to equip multi-core and many-core processors (such as GPUs). Due to their discrete memory these heterogeneous architectures comprise a distributed system within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hao Wu , Daniel Lohmann , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

GPUs are vastly underutilized, even when running resource-intensive AI applications, as GPU kernels within each job have diverse resource profiles that may saturate some parts of a device while often leaving other parts idle. Colocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Elvinger , Foteini Strati , Natalie Enright Jerger , Ana Klimovic

Malleable scheduling is a model that captures the possibility of parallelization to expedite the completion of time-critical tasks. A malleable job can be allocated and processed simultaneously on multiple machines, occupying the same time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

We consider the $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem $\mathrm{P} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{pmtn, setup=s_i} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{C_{\max}}$, the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs, which are divided into $c$ classes, on $m$ identical parallel machines…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Max A. Deppert , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

We consider fundamental scheduling problems motivated by energy issues. In this framework, we are given a set of jobs, each with a release time, deadline and required processing length. The jobs need to be scheduled on a machine so that at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Jessica Chang , Samir Khuller , Koyel Mukherjee

Integer linear programs of configurations, or configuration IPs, are a classical tool in the design of algorithms for scheduling and packing problems, where a set of items has to be placed in multiple target locations. Herein a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein , Marten Maack , Malin Rau

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 study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

The active-time scheduling problem considers the problem of scheduling preemptible jobs with windows (release times and deadlines) on a parallel machine that can schedule up to $g$ jobs during each timestep. The goal in the active-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nairen Cao , Jeremy T. Fineman , Shi Li , Julián Mestre , Katina Russell , Seeun William Umboh

Motivated by modern parallel computing applications, we consider the problem of scheduling parallel-task jobs with heterogeneous resource requirements in a cluster of machines. Each job consists of a set of tasks that can be processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Javad Ghaderi

We introduce a natural but seemingly yet unstudied generalization of the problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine so as to minimize the number of tardy jobs. Our generalization lies in simultaneously considering several instances of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Dvir Shabtay

In cloud machine learning (ML) inference systems, providing low latency to end-users is of utmost importance. However, maximizing server utilization and system throughput is also crucial for ML service providers as it helps lower the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yunseong Kim , Yujeong Choi , Minsoo Rhu

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in machine learning inferences on serverless computing for its auto-scaling and cost effective properties. Existing serverless computing, however, lacks effective job scheduling methods to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xinning Hui , Yuanchao Xu , Zhishan Guo , Xipeng Shen

In this paper the problem of scheduling of jobs on parallel machines under incompatibility relation is considered. In this model a binary relation between jobs is given and no two jobs that are in the relation can be scheduled on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tytus Pikies , Hanna Furmańczyk

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

Consider the problem in which n jobs that are classified into k types are to be scheduled on m identical machines without preemption. A machine requires a proper setup taking s time units before processing jobs of a given type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers