Abstract—Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influence models of work. Today, there is an increasing interest in outsourcing tasks to crowdsourcing environments tha...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
Hyperthreaded(HT) and simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are now available in commodity workstations and servers. This technology is designed to increase throughput by ex...
Yun Zhang, Mihai Burcea, Victor Cheng, Ron Ho, Mic...
Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
We present an adaptive work-stealing thread scheduler, ASTEAL, for fork-join multithreaded jobs, like those written using the Cilk multithreaded language or the Hood work-stealing...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Yuxiong He, W...
We consider machine scheduling on unrelated parallel machines with the objective to minimize the schedule makespan. We assume that, in addition to its machine dependence, the proce...