Models and Scheduling Mechanisms for Global Computing Applications
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The Computational Co-op: Gathering Clusters into a Metacomputer
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The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
On Scheduling Mesh-Structured Computations for Internet-Based Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Guidelines for Scheduling Some Common Computation-Dags for Internet-Based Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On Scheduling Complex Dags for Internet-Based Computing
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Papers - Volume 01
Parallel scheduling of complex dags under uncertainty
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An observation on time-storage trade off
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Internet computing of tasks with dependencies using unreliable workers
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Parallel scheduling of complex dags under uncertainty
Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
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Extending IC-scheduling via the Sweep Algorithm
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Assessing the computational benefits of AREA-oriented DAG-scheduling
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A pebble game for internet-based computing
Theoretical Computer Science
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The process of scheduling computations for Internet-based computing presents challenges not encountered with more traditional computing platforms. The looser coupling among participating computers makes it harder to utilize remote clients well, and raises the specter of a kind of “gridlock” that ensues when a computation stalls because no new tasks are eligible for execution. This paper studies the problem of scheduling computation-dags in a manner that renders tasks eligible for execution at the maximum possible rate. Earlier work has developed a framework for such scheduling when a new task is allocated to a remote client as soon as it returns the results from an earlier task. The proof in that work that many dags cannot be scheduled optimally within this paradigm signaled the need for a companion theory that addresses the scheduling problem for all computation-dags. A new, batched, scheduling paradigm for Internet-based computing is developed in this work. Although optimal batched schedules always exist, computing such a schedule is NP-Hard, even for bipartite dags. In response, a polynomial-time algorithm is developed for producing optimal batched schedules for a rich family of dags obtained by “composing” tree-structured building-block dags. Finally, a fast heuristic schedule is developed for “expansive” dags.