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IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Utilization and Predictability in Scheduling the IBM SP2 with Backfilling
Scheduling jobs on the IBM SP2 system is usually done by giving each job a partition of the machine for its exclusive use. Allocating such partitions in the order that the jobs ar...
Dror G. Feitelson, Ahuva Mu'alem Weil
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Interstitial Computing: Utilizing Spare Cycles on Supercomputers
This paper presents an analysis of utilizing unused cycles on supercomputers through the use of many small jobs. What we call “interstitial computing,” is important to superco...
Stephen D. Kleban, Scott H. Clearwater