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Advances in IC-Scheduling Theory: Scheduling Expansive and Reductive Dags and Scheduling Dags via Duality
November 2007 (vol. 18 no. 11)
pp. 1607-1617
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Gennaro Cordasco, Grzegorz Malewicz, Arnold Rosenberg, "Advances in IC-Scheduling Theory: Scheduling Expansive and Reductive Dags and Scheduling Dags via Duality," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1607-1617, November, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPDS.2007.1067,
author = {Gennaro Cordasco and Grzegorz Malewicz and Arnold Rosenberg},
title = {Advances in IC-Scheduling Theory: Scheduling Expansive and Reductive Dags and Scheduling Dags via Duality},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {18},
number = {11},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2007},
pages = {1607-1617},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2007.1067},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Earlier work has developed the underpinnings of IC-Scheduling Theory, a frame- work for scheduling computations having intertask dependencies|modeled via dags- for Internet-based computing. The goal of the schedules produced is to render tasks eligible for execution at the maximum possible rate, with the dual aim of: (a) utiliz- ing remote clients' computational resources well, by always having work to allocate to an available client; (b) lessening the likelihood of a computation's stalling for lack of eligible tasks. The dags handled by the Theory thus far are those that can be decomposed into a given collection of bipartite building-block dags via the operation of dag-decomposition. A basic tool in constructing schedules is a relation B, which allows one to "prioritize" the scheduling of a complex dag's building blocks. The current paper extends IC-Scheduling Theory in two ways: by expanding significantly the repertoire of dags that the Theory can schedule optimally, and by allowing one sometimes to shortcut the algorithmic process required to find optimal schedules. The expanded repertoire now allows the Theory to schedule optimally, among other dags, a large range of dags that are either "expansive," in the sense that they grow outward from their sources, or "reductive," in the sense that they grown inward toward their sinks. The algorithmic shortcuts allow one to "read off" an optimal schedule for a dag from a given optimal schedule for the dag's dual, which is obtained by reversing all arcs (thereby exchanging the roles of sources and sinks).

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Index Terms:
IC-Scheduling theory, Internet-based computing, Grid computing, Global computing, Scheduling dags, Theory
Citation:
Gennaro Cordasco, Grzegorz Malewicz, Arnold Rosenberg, "Advances in IC-Scheduling Theory: Scheduling Expansive and Reductive Dags and Scheduling Dags via Duality," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1607-1617, Nov. 2007, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2007.1067
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