Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing: 7th International Workshop, JSSPP 2001 Cambridge, MA, USA, June 16, 2001 Revised Papers

✍ Scribed by Mark E. Crovella (auth.), Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2001, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in June 2001.
The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision, and present state-of-the-art results in the area.

✦ Table of Contents

Performance Evaluation with Heavy Tailed Distributions....Pages 1-10
SRPT Scheduling for Web Servers....Pages 11-20
An Efficient and Scalable Coscheduling Technique for Large Symmetric Multiprocessor Clusters....Pages 21-40
Coscheduling under Memory Constraints in a NOW Environment....Pages 41-65
The Influence of Communication on the Performance of Co-allocation....Pages 66-86
Core Algorithms of the Maui Scheduler....Pages 87-102
On the Development of an Efficient Coscheduling System....Pages 103-115
Effects of Memory Performance on Parallel Job Scheduling....Pages 116-132
An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling, and Migration....Pages 133-158
Characteristics of a Large Shared Memory Production Workload....Pages 159-187
Metrics for Parallel Job Scheduling and Their Convergence....Pages 188-205

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Processor Architectures; Computation by Abstract Devices; Logic Design