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We consider the problem of scheduling jobs with equal lengths on uniform parallel batch machines with non-identical capacities where each job can only be processed on a specified subset of machines called its processing set. For the case of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Shuguang Li

This paper focuses on the problem of coflow scheduling with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize…

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

Co-flows model a modern scheduling setting that is commonly found in a variety of applications in distributed and cloud computing. In co-flow scheduling, there are $m$ input ports and $m$ output ports. Each co-flow $j \in J$ can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Sungjin Im , Manish Purohit

In the present-day, distributed applications are commonly spread across multiple datacenters, reaching out to edge and fog computing locations. The transition away from single datacenter hosting is driven by capacity constraints in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Berta Serracanta , Alberto Rodriguez-Natal , Fabio Maino , Albert Cabellos

This paper first presents a parallel solution for the Flowshop Scheduling Problem in parallel environment, and then proposes a novel load balancing strategy. The proposed Proportional Fairness Strategy (PFS) takes computational performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Zheng Sun , Xiaohong Huang , Yan Ma

Fork-Join (FJ) queueing models capture the dynamics of system parallelization under synchronization constraints, for example, for applications such as MapReduce, multipath transmission and RAID systems. Arriving jobs are first split into…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh , Amr Rizk , Alexander Frömmgen , Heinz Koeppl

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

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

This work presents MAC-Flow, a simple yet expressive framework for multi-agent coordination. We argue that requirements of effective coordination are twofold: (i) a rich representation of the diverse joint behaviors present in offline data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Dongsu Lee , Daehee Lee , Amy Zhang

The assessment of a job's Quality of Service (QoS) often revolves around its flow time, also referred to as response time. This study delves into two fundamental objectives for scheduling jobs: the average flow time and the maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tung-Wei Kuo

Consider a set of jobs connected to a directed acyclic task graph with a fixed source and sink. The edges of this graph model precedence constraints and the jobs have to be scheduled with respect to those. We introduce the Server Cloud…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Marten Maack , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Simon Pukrop

Optimizing the parallel training of large models requires exploring intra-operator parallelism plans for a computation graph that typically contains tens of thousands of primitive operators. While the optimization of parallel data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weifang Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Yunkai Zhang , Chang Wu , Xuan Peng , Jiaqi Zhai , Hai Jin , Xuehai Qian , Jingling Xue , Yongluan Zhou

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

Flowshop machine scheduling has been of main interest in several applications where the timing of its processes plays a fundamental role in the utilization of system resources. Addressing the optimal sequencing of the jobs when equivalent…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Samah A. M. Ghanem

Modern data centers serve workloads which are capable of exploiting parallelism. When a job parallelizes across multiple servers it will complete more quickly, but jobs receive diminishing returns from being allocated additional servers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Benjamin Berg , Rein Vesilo , Mor Harchol-Balter

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We consider the problem of scheduling multiprocessor jobs to minimize the total completion time under the given energy budget. Each multiprocessor job requires more than one processor at the same moment of time. Processors may operate at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Alexander Kononov , Yulia Kovalenko

Scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on a set of identical machines to minimize the total processing time (makespan) is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. In practical settings such as cloud computing, jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi

We consider the following shared-resource scheduling problem: Given a set of jobs $J$, for each $j\in J$ we must schedule a job-specific processing volume of $v_j>0$. A total resource of $1$ is available at any time. Jobs have a resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Florian Schneider

Coflow is a recently proposed network abstraction to capture communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem in large data centers is one of the most important $NP$-hard problems. Previous research on coflow scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chi-Yeh Chen