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The Feedback-Guided Dynamic Loop Scheduling (FGDLS) algorithm [1] is a recent dynamic approach to the scheduling of a parallel loop within a sequential outer loop. Earlier papers have analysed convergence under the assumption that the workload is a positive, continuous, function of a continuous argument (the iteration number). However, this assumption is unrealistic since it is known that the iteration number is a discrete variable. In this paper we extend the proof of convergence of the algorithm to the case where the iteration number is treated as a discrete variable. We are able to establish convergence of the FGDLS algorithm for the case when the workload is monotonically decreasing.
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Tabirca, S., Tabirca, T., Yang, L.T. (2005). Convergence of the Discrete FGDLS Algorithm. In: Yang, L.T., Rana, O.F., Di Martino, B., Dongarra, J. (eds) High Performance Computing and Communications. HPCC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3726. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557654_29
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