Although there is wide agreement that backfilling produces significant benefits in scheduling
of parallel jobs, there is no clear consensus on which backfilling strategy is preferable eg …

Recently, there has been significant growth in the popularity of cloud computing systems.
One of the main issues in building cloud computing systems is task scheduling. It plays a …

Although there is wide agreement that backfilling produces significant benefits in scheduling
of parallel jobs, there is no clear consensus on which backfilling strategy is preferable …

In most parallel supercomputers, submitting a job for execution involves specifying (i) how
many processors are to be allocated to the job, and (ii) for how long these processors are to …

In order to evaluate different scheduling strategies for parallel computers, simulations are
often executed. As the scheduling quality highly depends on the workload that is served on …

EASY-Backfilling is a popular scheduling heuristic for allocating jobs in large scale High
Performance Computing platforms. While its aggressive reservation mechanism is fast and …

In-memory computing provides revolutionary changes to computer architecture by fusing
memory and computation, allowing data-intensive computations to reduce data …

Despite the impressive growth and size of super-computers, the computational power they
provide still cannot match the demand. Efficient and fair resource allocation is a critical task …

The EASY-FCFS heuristic is the basic building block of job scheduling policies in most
parallel High Performance Computing platforms. Despite its simplicity, and the guarantee of …

Although theoretical results have been established regarding the utility of preemptive
scheduling in reducing average job turnaround time, job suspension/restart is not much …