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This paper presents a systematic review of mapping and scheduling strategies within the High-Performance Computing (HPC) compute continuum, with a particular emphasis on heterogeneous systems. It introduces a prototype workflow to establish…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aasish Kumar Sharma , Julian Kunkel

Understanding the performance of data-parallel workloads when resource-constrained has significant practical importance but unfortunately has received only limited attention. This paper identifies, quantifies and demonstrates memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Calin Iorgulescu , Florin Dinu , Aunn Raza , Wajih Ul Hassan , Willy Zwaenepoel

High-Performance Computing (HPC) job scheduling involves balancing conflicting objectives such as minimizing makespan, reducing wait times, optimizing resource use, and ensuring fairness. Traditional methods, including heuristic-based,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Prachi Jadhav , Hongwei Jin , Ewa Deelman , Prasanna Balaprakash

High Speed computing meets ever increasing real-time computational demands through the leveraging of flexibility and parallelism. The flexibility is achieved when computing platform designed with heterogeneous resources to support…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Mahendra Vucha , Arvind Rajawat

Modern data centers are tasked with processing heterogeneous workloads consisting of various classes of jobs. These classes differ in their arrival rates, size distributions, and job parallelizability. With respect to paralellizability,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Benjamin Berg , Mor Harchol-Balter , Benjamin Moseley , Weina Wang , Justin Whitehouse

Recent High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are facing important challenges, such as massive power consumption, while at the same time significantly under-utilized system resources. Given the power consumption trends, future systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Eishi Arima , Isaías A. Comprés , Martin Schulz

Process malleability has proved to have a highly positive impact on the resource utilization and global productivity in data centers compared with the conventional static resource allocation policy. However, the non-negligible additional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Sergio Iserte , Rafael Mayo , Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí , Antonio J. Peña

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou

Increasing data volumes in scientific experiments necessitate the use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources for data analysis. In many scientific fields, the data generated from scientific instruments and supercomputer simulations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sam Nickolay , Eun-Sung Jung , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

We present a scheduler that improves cluster utilization and job completion times by packing tasks having multi-resource requirements and inter-dependencies. While the problem is algorithmically very hard, we achieve near-optimality on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Robert Grandl , Srikanth Kandula , Sriram Rao , Aditya Akella , Janardhan Kulkarni

Real-time systems are intrinsic components of many pivotal applications, such as self-driving vehicles, aerospace and defense systems. The trend in these applications is to incorporate multiple tasks onto fewer, more powerful hardware…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-03 V. Gabriel Moyano , Zain A. H. Hammadeh , Selma Saidi , Daniel Lüdtke

The proliferation of multi-core and multiprocessor-based computer systems has led to explosive development of parallel applications and hence the need for efficient schedulers. In this paper, we study hierarchical scheduling for malleable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Yangjie Cao , Hongyang Sun , Depei Qian , Weiguo Wu

Elasticity is offered by cloud service providers to exploit under-utilized computing resources. The low-cost elastic nodes can leave and join any time during the computation cycle. The possibility of elastic events occurring together with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shahrzad Kiani , Tharindu Adikari , Stark C. Draper

Several companies and research institutes are moving their CPU-intensive applications to hybrid High Performance Computing (HPC) cloud environments. Such a shift depends on the creation of software systems that help users decide where a job…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Renato L. F. Cunha , Eduardo R. Rodrigues , Leonardo P. Tizzei , Marco A. S. Netto

Runtime scheduling and workflow systems are an increasingly popular algorithmic component in HPC because they allow full system utilization with relaxed synchronization requirements. There are so many special-purpose tools for task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-03 David M. Rogers

The convergence of IoT, Edge, Cloud, and HPC technologies creates a compute continuum that merges cloud scalability and flexibility with HPC's computational power and specialized optimizations. However, integrating cloud and HPC resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Aasish Kumar Sharma , Christian Boehme , Patrick Gelß , Ramin Yahyapour , Julian Kunkel

Work-stealing systems are typically oblivious to the nature of the tasks they are scheduling. For instance, they do not know or take into account how long a task will take to execute or how many subtasks it will spawn. Moreover, the actual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Martin Wimmer , Daniel Cederman , Jesper Larsson Träff , Philippas Tsigas

The increased use of deep learning (DL) in academia, government and industry has, in turn, led to the popularity of on-premise and cloud-hosted deep learning platforms, whose goals are to enable organizations utilize expensive resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Vaibhav Saxena , K. R. Jayaram , Saurav Basu , Yogish Sabharwal , Ashish Verma

This study presents a machine learning-assisted approach to optimize task scheduling in cluster systems, focusing on node-affinity constraints. Traditional schedulers like Kubernetes struggle with real-time adaptability, whereas the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Leszek Sliwko , Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko

Energy consumption is one of the most critical concerns in designing computing devices, ranging from portable embedded systems to computer cluster systems. Furthermore, in the past decade, cluster systems have increasingly risen as popular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Amirhossein Esmaili , Massoud Pedram