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We consider non-preemptive scheduling of MapReduce jobs with multiple tasks in the practical scenario where each job requires several map-reduce rounds. We seek to minimize the average weighted completion time and consider scheduling on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Dimitris Fotakis , Ioannis Milis , Orestis Papadigenopoulos , Vasilis Vassalos , Georgios Zois

We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexander Lindermayr , Guido Schäfer , Jens Schlöter , Leen Stougie

In serial batch (s-batch) scheduling, jobs from similar families are grouped into batches and processed sequentially to avoid repetitive setups that are required when processing consecutive jobs of different families. Despite its large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We present an analysis of large-scale load balancing systems, where the processing time distribution of tasks depends on both the task and server types. Our study focuses on the asymptotic regime, where the number of servers and task types…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Zhisheng Zhao , Debankur Mukherjee

Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sankalpa Timilsina , Susmit Shannigrahi

Service systems often face task-server assignment-constraints due to skill-based routing or geographical conditions. Redundancy scheduling responds to this limited flexibility by replicating tasks to specific servers in agreement with these…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Ellen Cardinaels , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

The vast amounts of data used in social, business or traffic networks, biology and other natural sciences are often managed in graph-based data sets, consisting of a few thousand up to billions and trillions of vertices and edges,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Matthias Hauck , Ismail Oukid , Holger Fröning

Data processing systems offer an ever increasing degree of parallelism on the levels of cores, CPUs, and processing nodes. Query optimization must exploit high degrees of parallelism in order not to gradually become the bottleneck of query…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

Stochastic Processing Networks (SPNs) can be used to model communication networks, manufacturing systems, service systems, etc. We consider a real-time SPN where tasks generate jobs with strict deadlines according to their traffic patterns.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-23 I-Hong Hou , Rahul Singh

The fundamental problem in the study of parallel-server systems is that of finding and analyzing `good' routing policies of arriving jobs to the servers. It is well known that, if full information regarding the workload process is available…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Pascal Moyal , Ohad Perry

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Guillaume Aupy , Manu Shantharam , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Padma Raghavan

We study the steady-state performance of parallel-server systems under an immediate routing architecture with two sources of heterogeneity: servers and job classes, subject to compatibility constraints. We focus on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Yaosheng Xu

Hosting diverse large language model workloads in a unified resource pool through co-location is cost-effective. For example, long-running chat services generally follow diurnal traffic patterns, which inspire co-location of batch jobs to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ping Zhang , Lei Su , Jinjie Yang , Xin Chen

We study a sequential resource allocation problem involving a fixed number of recurring jobs. At each time-step the manager should distribute available resources among the jobs in order to maximise the expected number of completed jobs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Tor Lattimore , Koby Crammer , Csaba Szepesvári

This paper considers parallel machine scheduling with incompatibilities between jobs. The jobs form a graph and no two jobs connected by an edge are allowed to be assigned to the same machine. In particular, we study the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack , Tytus Pikies

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

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

Due to the ubiquity of batch data processing in cloud computing, the related problem of scheduling malleable batch tasks and its extensions have received significant attention recently. In this paper, we consider a fundamental model where a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling on parallel machines with a presence of incompatibilities between jobs. The incompatibility relation can be modeled as a complete multipartite graph in which each edge denotes a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tytus Pikies , Krzysztof Turowski , Marek Kubale

Key-based workload partitioning is a common strategy used in parallel stream processing engines, enabling effective key-value tuple distribution over worker threads in a logical operator. While randomized hashing on the keys is capable of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Junhua Fang , Rong Zhang , Tom Z. J. Fu , Zhenjie Zhang , Aoying Zhou , Junhua Zhu