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This paper presents a multiagent approach as a paradigm for scheduling parallel jobs in a parallel system. Scheduling parallel jobs is performed as a means to balance the load of a system in order to improve the performance of a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

Modern data center workloads are composed of multiserver jobs, computational jobs that require multiple servers in order to run. A data center server can run many multiserver jobs in parallel, as long as it has sufficient resources to meet…

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on fault-prone machines communicating via a shared channel, also known as multiple-access channel. We have $n$ arbitrary length jobs to be scheduled on $m$ identical machines, $f$ of which are prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jarosław Mirek , Prudence W. H. Wong

NVIDIA MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) allows partitioning a physical GPU into multiple logical instances with fully-isolated resources, which can be dynamically reconfigured. This work highlights the untapped potential of MIG through moldable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jorge Villarrubia , Luis Costero , Francisco D. Igual , Katzalin Olcoz

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to significantly reduce the capital and operating expenses, shorten product release cycle, and improve service agility. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the total number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yu Sang , Bo Ji , Gagan R. Gupta , Xiaojiang Du , Lin Ye

This paper addresses the scheduling problem of coflows in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $NP$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize communication patterns in data centers. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chi-Yeh Chen

We consider the two-parallel machines scheduling problem, with the aim of minimizing the maximum lateness and the makespan. Formally, the problem is defined as follows. We have to schedule a set J of n jobs on two identical machines. Each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Gais Alhadi , Imed Kacem , Pierre Laroche , Izzeldin M. Osman

Computing workflows in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems are frequently modeled as directed acyclic graphs of tasks and data blocks, which represent computational modules and their dependencies in the form of data produced by a task and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junwen Ding , Liangcai Song , Siyuan Li , Chen Wu , Ronghua He , Zhouxing Su , Zhipeng Lü

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

Many scientific workflows can be modeled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (henceforth mentioned as DAG) where the nodes represent individual tasks, and the directed edges represent data and control flow dependency between two tasks. Due to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Atharva Tekawade , Suman Banerjee

We study the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau

We consider the problem of minimizing the makespan in a flowshop involving maximal and minimal time lags. Time lag constraints generalize the classical precedence constraints between operations. We assume that such constraints are only…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Julien Fondrevelle , Ammar Oulamara , Marie-Claude Portmann

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

Efficient scheduling of parallel computation resources across multiple jobs is a fundamental problem in modern cloud/edge computing systems for many AI-based applications. Allocating more resources to a job accelerates its completion, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chengzhang Li , Peizhong Ju , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness Shroff

Autoregressive models, despite their commendable performance in a myriad of generative tasks, face challenges stemming from their inherently sequential structure. Inference on these models, by design, harnesses a temporal dependency, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jinghan Yao , Nawras Alnaasan , Tian Chen , Aamir Shafi , Hari Subramoni , Dhabaleswar K. , Panda

Temporal interaction networks capture the history of activities between entities along a timeline. At each interaction, some quantity of data (money, information, kbytes, etc.) flows from one vertex of the network to another. Flow-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

The paper deals with the makespan minimization in the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with multiprocessor tasks. The hybrid flow shop (HFS) generalizes the classical flow shop processor configuration by replacing each processor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Adam Janiak , Damian Kowalczyk , Maciej Lichtenstein

We study the problem of online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD), where a team of agents must repeatedly serve dynamically appearing tasks on a shared map. Existing online methods either rely on simple heuristics, which result in poor…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yue Zhang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Pierre Le Bodic , Peter J. Stuckey