Hierarchical Scheduling in Parallel and Cluster Systems
[Book]
by Sivarama Dandamudi.
Boston, MA
Springer US : Imprint : Springer
2003
(275 pages)
Series in computer science.
I: Background --;1. Introduction --;2. Parallel and Cluster Systems --;3. Parallel Job Scheduling --;II: Hierarchical Task Queue Organization --;4. Hierarchical Task Queue Organization --;5. Performance of Scheduling Policies --;6. Performance with Synchronization Workloads --;III: Hierarchical Scheduling Policies --;7. Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors --;8. Scheduling in Distributed-Memory Multicomputers --;9. Scheduling in Cluster Systems --;IV: Epilog --;10. Conclusions --;References.
Multiple processor systems are an important class of parallel systems. These systems are called uniform memory access (UMA) multiprocessors because they provide uniform access of memory to all pro- cessors. Such systems also provide global, shared memory like the UMA systems.
Computer architecture.
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.