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Volume 70, Issue 1, 16 April 1999, Pages 47-52
 
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Multiresource malleable task scheduling to minimize response time

Hadas ShachnaiCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a and John J. TurekE-mail The Corresponding Author, b

a Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel b IBM T.J. Watson, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

Received 4 August 1997;
revised 7 November 1998.
;communicated by S. Zaks
Available online 19 May 1999.

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Abstract

We present a technique for generalizing previously known results for single resource task systems to multiresource malleable task systems: assuming a system with r resources, we apply a transformation which maps the system into a single resource task system. Our objective is to minimize the average response time. For a large class of heuristics it is shown that, given a heuristic H which is cH-optimal in a single resource system, the proposed transformation yields a cH·r-optimal algorithm for the multiresource system.

Author Keywords: Multiresource systems; Parallelizable tasks; Scheduling; Malleable; Response time

Corresponding Author Contact Information Part of this work was done while the author was at IBM T.J. Watson, Yorktown Heights, NY; email: hadas@cs.technion.ac.il


 
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