Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing

A Self-Tuning Job Scheduler Family with Dynamic Policy Switching.- Preemption Based Backfill.- Job Scheduling for the BlueGene/L System.- Selective Reservation Strategies for Backfill Job Scheduling.- Multiple-Queue Backfilling Scheduling with Priorities and Reservations for Parallel Systems.- Scheduling Jobs on Parallel Systems Using a Relaxed Backfill Strategy.- The Impact of More Accurate Requested Runtimes on Production Job Scheduling Performance.- Economic Scheduling in Grid Computing.- SNAP: A Protocol for Negotiating Service Level Agreements and Coordinating Resource Management in Distributed Systems.- Local versus Global Schedulers with Processor Co-allocation in Multicluster Systems.- Practical Heterogeneous Placeholder Scheduling in Overlay Metacomputers: Early Experiences.- Current Activities in the Scheduling and Resource Management Area of the Global Grid Forum.

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