Job scheduling strategies for parallel processing : IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshop, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 30, 1998 : proceedings / Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph (eds.).

Metrics and benchmaking for parallel job scheduling / Dror G. Feitelson, Larry Rudolph -- A comparative study of real workload traces and synthetic workload models for parallel job scheduling / Virginia Lo, Jens Mache, and Kurt Windisch -- Lachesis : a job scheduler for the Cray T3E / Allen B. Downey -- A resource management architecture for metacomputing systems / Karl Czajkowski [and others] -- Implementing the combination of time sharing and space sharing on AP/Linux / Kuniyasu Suzaki and David Walsh -- Job scheduling scheme for pure space sharing among rigid jobs / Kento Aida, Hironori Kasahara, and Seinosuke Narita -- Predicting application run times using historical information / Warren Smith, Ian Foster, and Valerie Taylor -- Job scheduling strategies for networks of workstations / B.B. Zhou [and others] -- Probabilistic loop scheduling considering communication overhead / Sissades Tongsima, Chantana Chantrapornchai, and Edwin H.-M. Sha -- Improving first-come-first-serve job scheduling by gang scheduling / Uwe Schwiegelshohn and Ramin Yahyapour -- Expanding symmetric muliproccessor capability through gang scheduling / Morris a. Jette -- Overhead analysis of preemptive gang scheduling / Atsushi Hori, Hiroshi Tezuka, and Yutaka Ishikawa -- Dynamic coscheduling on workstation clusters / Patrick G. Sobalvarro [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing held during IPPS/SPDP'98, in Orlando, Florida, USA, in March 1998. The 13 revised full papers presented have gone through an iterated reviewing process and give a report on the state of the art in the area.