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Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

We study the precedence-constrained resource scheduling problem [SICOMP'75]. There are $n$ jobs where each job takes a certain time to finish and has a resource requirement throughout the execution time. There are precedence among the jobs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rathish Das , Hao Sun

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

This paper presents a novel idea for the general case of the Common Due-Date (CDD) scheduling problem. The problem is about scheduling a certain number of jobs on a single or parallel machines where all the jobs possess different processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Abhishek Awasthi , Jörg Lässig , Oliver Kramer

Deep learning has been effectively applied to many discrete optimization problems. However, learning-based scheduling on unrelated parallel machines remains particularly difficult to design. Not only do the numbers of jobs and machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diego Hitzges , Guillaume Sagnol

Growing power dissipation due to high performance requirement of processor suggests multicore processor technology, which has become the technology for present and next decade. Research advocates asymmetric multi-core processor system for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Alan David

Multi-socket multi-core servers are used for solving some of the important problems in computing. Remote DRAM accesses can impact performance of certain applications running on such servers. This paper presents a new near linear operating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the service industries where workers frequently perform multiple tasks by switching from one task to another. Hall, Leung and Li (Discrete Applied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

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

In this work, we study a single-machine scheduling problem that aims at minimizing the total cost of a schedule subject to start-time dependent costs. This framework naturally captures scenarios where costs fluctuate throughout the day,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Sofía Rodríguez-Ballesteros , Javier Alcaraz , Laura Anton-Sanchez , Marc Goerigk , Dorothee Henke

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 the restricted case of Scheduling on Unrelated Parallel Machines. In this problem, we are given a set of jobs $J$ with processing times $p_j$ and each job may be scheduled only on some subset of machines $S_j \subseteq M$. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Chidambaram Annamalai

The paper considers single-machine scheduling problems with a non-renewable resource. In this setting, we are given a set jobs, each of which is characterized by a processing time, a weight, and the job also has some resource requirement.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Simon Omlor

We investigate the scheduling of $n$ jobs divided into $c$ classes on $m$ identical parallel machines. For every class there is a setup time which is required whenever a machine switches from the processing of one class to another class.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

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

Consider the problem in which n jobs that are classified into k types are to be scheduled on m identical machines without preemption. A machine requires a proper setup taking s time units before processing jobs of a given type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers

Multiprocessor task scheduling is an important and computationally difficult problem. This paper proposes a comparison study of genetic algorithm and list scheduling algorithm. Both algorithms are naturally parallelizable but have heavy…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-02-08 S. R. Vijayalakshmi , G. Padmavathi

We investigate a single machine rescheduling problem that arises from an unexpected machine unavailability, after the given set of jobs has already been scheduled to minimize the total weighted completion time. Such a disruption is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Wenchang Luo , Taibo Luo , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin

In this work we revisit the elementary scheduling problem $1||\sum p_j U_j$. The goal is to select, among $n$ jobs with processing times and due dates, a subset of jobs with maximum total processing time that can be scheduled in sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Nick Fischer , Leo Wennmann

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 4 uniform machines with speeds $s_1 \geq s_2 \geq s_3 \geq s_4,$ respectively. Our aim is to find a schedule with a minimum possible length. We assume that jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-08 H. Furmanczyk , M. Kubale