Authors: Ankur Kamthe SooYoung Lee
Publish Date: 2011/07/07
Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 377-395
Abstract
Previously DAG scheduling schemes used the mean average of computation or communication time in dealing with temporal heterogeneity However it is not optimal to consider only the means of computation and communication times in DAG scheduling on a temporally and spatially heterogeneous distributed computing system In this paper it is proposed that the second order moments of computation and communication times such as the standard deviations be taken into account in addition to their means in scheduling “stochastic” DAGs An effective scheduling approach which accurately estimates the earliest start time of each node and derives a schedule leading to a shorter average parallel execution time has been developed Through an extensive computer simulation it has been shown that a significant improvement reduction in the average parallel execution times of stochastic DAGs can be achieved by the proposed approach
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