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We consider the weighted completion time minimization problem for capacitated parallel machines, which is a fundamental problem in modern cloud computing environments. We study settings in which the processed jobs may have varying duration,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Izack Cohen , Iyar Zaks

Distributed load balancing is the act of allocating jobs among a set of servers as evenly as possible. There are mainly two versions of the load balancing problem that have been studied in the literature: static and dynamic. The static…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Thirupathaiah Vasantam , Prithwish Basu , Don Towsley

Many modern schedulers can dynamically adjust their service capacity to match the incoming workload. At the same time, however, unpredictability and instability in service capacity often incur operational and infrastructure costs. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Yorie Nakahira , Andres Ferragut , Adam Wierman

The efficient scheduling of multi-task jobs across multiprocessor systems has become increasingly critical with the rapid expansion of computational systems. This challenge, known as Multiprocessor Multitask Scheduling (MPMS), is essential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wenxin Li

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

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

We investigate the global scheduling of sporadic, implicit deadline, real-time task systems on multiprocessor platforms. We provide a task model which integrates job parallelism. We prove that the time-complexity of the feasibility problem…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-05-22 S. Collette , L. Cucu , J. Goossens

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

In this paper we study the multiple-processor multitask scheduling problem in both deterministic and stochastic models, where each job have several tasks and is complete only when all its tasks are finished. We consider and analyze Modified…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wenxin Li , Ness Shroff

We describe in this paper a new method for building an efficient algorithm for scheduling jobs in a cluster. Jobs are considered as parallel tasks (PT) which can be scheduled on any number of processors. The main feature is to consider two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Pierre-Francois Dutot , Lionel Eyraud , Grégory Mounié , Denis Trystram

This work studies fixed priority (FP) scheduling of real-time jobs with end-to-end deadlines in a distributed system. Specifically, given a multi-stage pipeline with multiple heterogeneous resources of the same type at each stage, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Niraj Kumar , Chuanchao Gao , Arvind Easwaran

Motivated by the growing interest in today's massive parallel computing capabilities we analyze a queueing network with many servers in parallel to which jobs arrive a according to a Poisson process. Each job, upon arrival, is split into…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Mariana Olvera-Cravioto , Octavio Ruiz-Lacedelli

We consider a distributed server system consisting of a large number of servers, each with limited capacity on multiple resources (CPU, memory, disk, etc.). Jobs with different rewards arrive over time and require certain amounts of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

While scheduling and dispatching of computational workloads is a well-investigated subject, only recently has Google provided publicly a vast high-resolution measurement dataset of its cloud workloads. We revisit dispatching and scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mert Yildiz , Alexey Rolich , Andrea Baiocchi

Emerging workloads, such as graph processing and machine learning are approximate because of the scale of data involved and the stochastic nature of the underlying algorithms. These algorithms are often distributed over multiple machines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Asim Kadav , Erik Kruus

We consider the problem of minimizing queue-length costs in a system with heterogenous parallel servers, operating in a many-server heavy-traffic regime with nondegenerate slowdown. This regime is distinct from the well-studied heavy…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Rami Atar , Itai Gurvich

We investigate an optimal scheduling problem in a discrete-time system of L parallel queues that are served by K identical, randomly connected servers. Each queue may be connected to a subset of the K servers during any given time slot.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Hussein Al-Zubaidy , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

A fork-join processing network is a queueing network in which tasks associated with a job can be processed simultaneously. Fork-join processing networks are prevalent in computer systems, healthcare, manufacturing, project management,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Erhun Ozkan

To keep pace with Moore's law, chip designers have focused on increasing the number of cores per chip rather than single core performance. In turn, modern jobs are often designed to run on any number of cores. However, to effectively…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Benjamin Berg , Jan-Pieter Dorsman , Mor Harchol-Balter