Cloud computing is very popular because of its unique features such as scalability, elasticity,
on-demand service, and security. A large number of tasks are performed simultaneously in a …

High-performance computing (HPC), according to its name, is traditionally oriented toward
performance, especially the execution time and scalability of the computations. However …

The advent of Cloud computing as a new model of service provisioning in distributed
systems encourages researchers to investigate its benefits and drawbacks on executing …

In this paper, we investigate the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained parallel
applications on heterogeneous computing systems (HCSs) like cloud computing …

Traditionally, the primary performance goal of computer systems has focused on reducing
the execution time of applications while increasing throughput. This performance goal has …

Recently, utility Grids have emerged as a new model of service provisioning in
heterogeneous distributed systems. In this model, users negotiate with service providers on …

Executing a large program using clouds is a promising approach, as this class of programs
may be decomposed into multiple sequences of tasks that can be executed on multiple …

Modern mobile devices are equipped with multicore-based processors, which introduce new
challenges on computation offloading. With the big. LITTLE architecture, instead of only …

Jobs on high-performance computing systems are deployed mostly with the sole goal of
minimizing completion times. This performance demand has been satisfied without paying …

The task scheduling problem on heterogeneous computing systems has been broadly
studied, and many heuristic algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. It is interesting to …