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Task scheduling is an essential aspect of parallel process system. Most heuristics for this NP-hard problem assume fully connected homogeneous processors and ignore contention on the communication links. Actually, contention for communication resources has a strong influence on the execution time of a parallel program in arbitrary network topology heterogeneous system. This paper investigates the incorporation of contention awareness into task scheduling. The innovation is the idea of dynamic scheduling edges to links, which we use the earliest communication finish time search algorithm based on shortest-path search algorithm. The other novel idea proposed in this paper is scheduling priority based on recursive rank computation on heterogeneous arbitrary architectures. The comparison study, based on randomly generated graphs, shows that our scheduling algorithm significantly surpass classic and static communication contention awareness algorithm, especially for high data transmission rate parallel application
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60273075 and the Key Project of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.05128.
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914952_55.
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Tang, X., Li, K., Xiao, D., Yang, J., Liu, M., Qin, Y. (2006). A Dynamic Communication Contention Awareness List Scheduling Algorithm for Arbitrary Heterogeneous System. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914952_19
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