Scheduling Support Mechanisms for Autonomous, Heterogeneous, Distributed Systems (1993)

by Stephen Joel Chapin.

An essential component of effective use of distributed systems is proper task placement, or scheduling. To produce high quality schedules, scheduling algorithms require underlying support mechanisms that provide information describing the distributed system. The work presented here makes a clear distinction between scheduling policies and the underlying mechanism, and focuses on the problem of providing general purpose mechanisms that facilitate a broad spectrum of task placement algorithms. [via]

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