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Effective workflow scheduling is a key but challenging issue in heterogeneous environments due to the heterogeneity and dynamism. Based on the observations that not all tasks can run on all resources and acquired data transferring and queuing for a resource can be concurrent, we propose a dynamic resource-critical workflow scheduling algorithm which take into consideration the environmental heterogeneity and dynamism. We evaluate its performance by simulations and show that it outperforms another selected widely used approach.
This work is supported by 973 Program (Grant No. 2005CB321807) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 60773058 and No. 60672051).
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Gong, Y., Pierce, M.E., Fox, G.C. (2009). Dynamic Resource-Critical Workflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Environments. In: Frachtenberg, E., Schwiegelshohn, U. (eds) Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing. JSSPP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04633-9_1
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