Online algorithm for parallel job scheduling and strip packing

  • Authors:
  • Johann L. Hurink;Jacob Jan Paulus

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • WAOA'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Approximation and online algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the online scheduling problem of parallel jobs on parallel machines, P|online - list, mj |Cmax. For this problem we present a 6.6623-competitive algorithm. This improves the best known 7- competitive algorithm for this problem. The presented algorithm also applies to the special case where machines are ordered on a line and only adjacent machines can be assigned to a job and, therefore, also to online orthogonal strip packing. Since previous results for online orthogonal strip packing assume bounded rectangles, the presented algorithm is the first with a constant competitive ratio.