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Malleable tasks consist in considering the tasks of a parallel program as large computational units that may be themselves parallelized. In this paper we investigate the problem of scheduling a set of n independent malleable tasks on a m processors system, starting from the continuous version of the problem.
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This work was realized when J. B.lażewicz was visiting ENSGI, Grenoble, in Spring 2000 and was partially supported by KBN Grant 8T11A01618
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Blazewicz, J., Machowiak, M., Mounié, G., Trystram, D. (2001). Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Independent Malleable Tasks. In: Sakellariou, R., Gurd, J., Freeman, L., Keane, J. (eds) Euro-Par 2001 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44681-8_29
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