Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing: IPDPS 2000 Workshop, JSSPP 2000 Cancun, Mexico, May 1, 2000 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Kento Aida (auth.), Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1911
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2000, held in Cancun, Mexico in May 2000 as a satelite meeting of IPDPS 2000.
The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed during an iterated evaluation process and present the state of the art in the area.

✦ Table of Contents

Effect of Job Size Characteristics on Job Scheduling Performance....Pages 1-17
Improving Parallel Job Scheduling Using Runtime Measurements....Pages 18-38
Valuation of Ultra-scale Computing Systems....Pages 39-55
System Utilization Benchmark on the Cray T3E and IBM SP....Pages 56-67
A Critique of ESP....Pages 68-73
Resource Allocation Schemes for Gang Scheduling....Pages 74-86
A Tool to Schedule Parallel Applications on Multiprocessors: The NANOS CPU Manager ....Pages 87-112
Time-Sharing Parallel Jobs in the Presence of Multiple Resource Requirements....Pages 113-136
The Performance Impact of Advance Reservation Meta-scheduling....Pages 137-153
The Influence of the Structure and Sizes of Jobs on the Performance of Co-allocation....Pages 154-173
Load Balancing for Minimizing Execution Time of a Target Job on a Network of Heterogeneous Workstations....Pages 174-186
Adaptive Selection of Partition Size for Supercomputer Requests....Pages 187-207

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Processor Architectures; Computer Hardware