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Divisible Load Theory: A New Paradigm for Load Scheduling in Distributed Systems

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Divisible load theory is a methodology involving the linear and continuous modeling of partitionable computation and communication loads for parallel processing. It adequately represents an important class of problems with applications in parallel and distributed system scheduling, various types of data processing, scientific and engineering computation, and sensor networks. Solutions are surprisingly tractable. Research in this area over the past decade is described.

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  1. Open Source Software Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, 119 260

    Veeravalli Bharadwaj

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India

    Debasish Ghose

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

    Thomas G. Robertazzi

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Bharadwaj, V., Ghose, D. & Robertazzi, T.G. Divisible Load Theory: A New Paradigm for Load Scheduling in Distributed Systems. Cluster Computing 6, 7–17 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020958815308

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