Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing: IPPS/SPDP’99Workshop, JSSPP’99 San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 16, 1999 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by James Patton Jones, Bill Nitzberg (auth.), Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1659
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP'99, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April 1999, as a satelite meeting of IPPS/SPDP'99.
The 12 revised full papers have been through an iterated reviewing process and present the state of the art in the area.

✦ Table of Contents

Scheduling for Parallel Supercomputing: A Historical Perspective of Achievable Utilization....Pages 1-16
On the Design and Evaluation of Job Scheduling Algorithms....Pages 17-42
Comparing Logs and Models of Parallel Workloads Using the Co-plot Method....Pages 43-66
Benchmarks and Standards for the Evaluation of Parallel Job Schedulers....Pages 67-90
The Effect of Correlating Quantum Allocation and Job Size for Gang Scheduling....Pages 91-110
Scheduling on AP/Linux for Fine and Coarse Grain Parallel Processes....Pages 111-128
Job Re-packing for Enhancing the Performance of Gang Scheduling....Pages 129-143
Process Tracking for Parallel Job Control....Pages 144-161
The Legion Resource Management System....Pages 162-178
Scheduling a Metacomputer with Uncooperative Sub-schedulers....Pages 179-201
Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance....Pages 202-219
Deterministic Batch Scheduling without Static Partitioning....Pages 220-235

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Processor Architectures; Logic Design