Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing IPPS/SPDP'98 Workshop, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 30, 1998 Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Feitelson, Dror G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rudolph, Larry (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1459
• Subjects: Architecture, Computer.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer programming.; Algorithms.; Microprocessors.; Computer System Implementation.; Operating Systems.; Programming Techniques.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Processor Architectures.; Register-Transfer-Level Implementation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing held during IPPS/SPDP'98, in Orlando, Florida, USA, in March 1998. The 13 revised full papers presented have gone through an iterated re...

Table of Contents:

• Metrics and benchmarking for parallel job scheduling
• A comparative study of real workload traces and synthetic workload models for parallel job scheduling
• Lachesis: A job scheduler for the cray T3E
• A resource management architecture for metacomputing systems
• Implementing the combination of time sharing and space sharing on AP/Linux
• Job scheduling scheme for pure space sharing among rigid jobs
• Predicting application run times using historical information
• Job scheduling strategies for networks of workstations
• Probabilistic loop scheduling considering communication overhead
• Improving first-come-first-serve job scheduling by gang scheduling
• Expanding symmetric multiprocessor capability through gang scheduling
• Overhead analysis of preemptive gang scheduling
• Dynamic coscheduling on workstation clusters.