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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…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study large-scale molecular systems. HPC systems are ideal platforms to run these studies, however, reaching the necessary simulation timescale to detect rare processes is challenging,…

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We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay, denoted as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Qingyu Liu , Lei Deng , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

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…

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We study the Multiple Cluster Scheduling problem and the Multiple Strip Packing problem. For both problems, there is no algorithm with approximation ratio better than $2$ unless $P = NP$. In this paper, we present an algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

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 study a problem of fundamental importance to ICNs, namely, minimizing routing costs by jointly optimizing caching and routing decisions over an arbitrary network topology. We consider both source routing and hop-by-hop routing settings.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Stratis Ioannidis , Edmund Yeh

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

We provide faster strongly polynomial time algorithms solving maximum flow in structured $n$-node $m$-arc networks. Our results imply an $n^{\omega + o(1)}$-time strongly polynomial time algorithms for computing a maximum bipartite…

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The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

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Hybrid switching - in which a high bandwidth circuit switch (optical or wireless) is used in conjunction with a low bandwidth packet switch - is a promising alternative to interconnect servers in today's large scale data-centers. Circuit…

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Maximum coverage and minimum set cover problems --collectively called coverage problems-- have been studied extensively in streaming models. However, previous research not only achieve sub-optimal approximation factors and space…

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In this paper, we address the minimum-cost node-capacitated multiflow problem in an undirected network. For this problem, Babenko and Karzanov (2012) showed strongly polynomial-time solvability via the ellipsoid method. Our result is the…

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We address the problem of efficient data gathering in a wireless network through multi-hop communication. We focus on the objective of minimizing the maximum flow time of a data packet. We prove that no polynomial time algorithm for this…

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The arrival of heterogeneous (or hybrid) multicore architectures has brought new performance trade-offs for applications, and efficiency opportunities to systems. They have also increased the challenges related to thread scheduling, as…

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We present efficient parallel algorithms for computing maximal matchings in hypergraphs. Our algorithm finds locally maximal edges in the hypergraph and adds them in parallel to the matching. In the CRCW PRAM models our algorithms achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Nodari Sitchinava , Fabian Walliser

We address the problem of configuring a power distribution network with reliability and resilience objectives by satisfying the demands of the consumers and saturating each production source as little as possible. We consider power…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dominique Barth , Thierry Mautor , Dimitri Watel , Marc-Antoine Weisser

We present algorithms that design NoCs with guaranteed quality of service. Given a topology, a mapping of tasks to processing elements, and traffic requirements between the tasks, the algorithm computes the interconnection widths, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Guy Even , Yaniv Fais

In moldable job scheduling, we are provided $m$ identical machines and $n$ jobs that can be executed on a variable number of machines. The execution time of each job depends on the number of machines assigned to execute that job. For the…

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