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A Critique of ESP

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This note is an elaboratin of a panel presentation, and is meant as a constructive critique of ESP. It should be remembered that the bottom line is that ESP is a big step in an important direction – otherwise we wouldn’t bother with this discussion...

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University, 91904, Jerusalem

    Dror G. Feitelson

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  1. The Hebrew University School of Computer Science and Engineering, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel

    Dror G. Feitelson

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Larry Rudolph

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Feitelson, D.G. (2000). A Critique of ESP. In: Feitelson, D.G., Rudolph, L. (eds) Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing. JSSPP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39997-6_5

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