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We develop a fluid-flow model for routing problems, where fluid consists of different size particles and the task is to route the incoming fluid to $n$ parallel servers using the size information in order to minimize the mean latency. The…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runhan Xie , Esa Hyytiä , Rhonda Righter

In this paper we describe a new algorithm for buffered global routing according to a prescribed buffer site map. Specifically, we describe a provably good multi-commodity flow based algorithm that finds a global routing minimizing buffer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christoph Albrecht , Andrew B. Kahng , Ion I. Mandoiu , Alexander Zelikovsky

In order to improve system performance efficiently, a number of systems choose to equip multi-core and many-core processors (such as GPUs). Due to their discrete memory these heterogeneous architectures comprise a distributed system within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hao Wu , Daniel Lohmann , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

This work studies online scheduling algorithms for buffer management, develops new algorithms, and analyzes their performances. Packets arrive at a release time r, with a non-negative weight w and an integer deadline d. At each time step,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nourhan Sakr , Cliff Stein

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

Over the years, many multiprocessor locking protocols have been designed and analyzed. However, the performance of these protocols highly depends on how the tasks are partitioned and prioritized and how the resources are shared locally and…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jian-Jia Chen , Georg von der Brüggen , Junjie Shi , Niklas Uete

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

The paper considers scheduling on parallel machines under the constraint that some pairs of jobs cannot be processed concurrently. Each job has an associated weight, and all jobs have the same deadline. The objective is to maximise the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yakov Zinder , Joanna Berlińska , Charlie Peter

Scheduling packets with end-to-end deadline constraints in multihop networks is an important problem that has been notoriously difficult to tackle. Recently, there has been progress on this problem in the worst-case traffic setting, with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Christos Tsanikidis , Javad Ghaderi

Millions of flows are routed concurrently through a modern data-center. These networks are often built as Clos topologies, and flow demands are constrained only by the link capacities at the ingress and egress points. The minimum congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Miguel Ferreira , Nirav Atre , Justine Sherry , Michael Dinitz , João Luís Sobrinho

Modern GPU workloads increasingly demand efficient resource sharing, as many jobs do not require the full capacity of a GPU. Among sharing techniques, NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) offers strong resource isolation by enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Hsu-Tzu Ting , Jerry Chou , Ming-Hung Chen , I-Hsin Chung

Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Noe

Scheduling of constrained deadline sporadic task systems on multiprocessor platforms is an area which has received much attention in the recent past. It is widely believed that finding an optimal scheduler is hard, and therefore most…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Arvind Easwaran , Insik Shin , Insup Lee

We introduce the following elementary scheduling problem. We are given a collection of n jobs, where each job has an integer length as well as a set Ti of time intervals in which it can be feasibly scheduled. Given a parameter B, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jessica Chang , Harold N. Gabow , Samir Khuller

In this paper we study the min-cost flow problem in planar networks. We start with the min-cost flow problem and apply two transformations, one is based on geometric duality of planar graphs and the other on linear programming duality. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Haim Kaplan , Yahav Nussbaum

The ever-increasing gap between compute and I/O performance in HPC platforms, together with the development of novel NVMe storage devices (NVRAM), led to the emergence of the burst buffer concept - an intermediate persistent storage layer…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Jan Kopanski

One of the most popular approaches to multi-target tracking is tracking-by-detection. Current min-cost flow algorithms which solve the data association problem optimally have three main drawbacks: they are computationally expensive, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Philip Lenz , Andreas Geiger , Raquel Urtasun

We address the problem of scheduling jobs with non-identical sizes and distinct processing times on a single batch processing machine, aiming at minimizing the makespan. The extensive literature on this NP-hard problem mostly focuses on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Renan Spencer Trindade , Olinto C. B. de Araujo , Marcia Fampa

With multiple identical unit speed servers, the online problem of scheduling jobs that migrate between two phases, limitedly parallelizable or completely sequential, and choosing their respective speeds to minimize the total flow time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rahul Vaze

With the rapidly growing demand of graph processing in the real scene, they have to efficiently handle massive concurrent jobs. Although existing work enable to efficiently handle single graph processing job, there are plenty of memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jin Zhao