One can only gain by replacing EASY Backfilling: A simple scheduling policies case study

D Carastan-Santos, RY De Camargo… - 2019 19th IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are growing in size and complexity. In order
to improve the quality of service of such platforms, researchers are devoting a great amount …

Job allocation strategies with user run time estimates for online scheduling in hierarchical grids

JM Ramírez-Alcaraz, A Tchernykh, R Yahyapour… - Journal of Grid …, 2011 - Springer
We address non-preemptive non-clairvoyant online scheduling of parallel jobs on a Grid.
We consider a Grid scheduling model with two stages. At the first stage, jobs are allocated to …

Approximation algorithms for multiple strip packing

M Bougeret, PF Dutot, K Jansen, C Otte… - … on Approximation and …, 2009 - Springer
In this paper we study the Multiple Strip Packing (MSP) problem, a generalization of the well-
known Strip Packing problem. For a given set of rectangles, r 1,..., rn, with heights and …

Online multiple-strip packing

D Ye, X Han, G Zhang - Theoretical Computer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
We study an online multiple-strip packing problem, whose goal is to pack the given
rectangles into m vertical strips of unit width such that the maximum height used among the …

Approximation algorithms for multiple strip packing and scheduling parallel jobs in platforms

M Bougeret, PF Dutot, K Jansen… - Discrete Mathematics …, 2011 - World Scientific
We consider two strongly related problems, multiple strip packing and scheduling parallel
jobs in platforms. In the first one we are given a list of n rectangles with heights and widths …

Fast heuristic algorithms for the multiple strip packing problem

I Vasilyev, AV Ushakov, MV Barkova, D Zhang… - … Optimization Theory and …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper we address the so-called two-dimensional Multiple Strip Packing Problem
(MSPP). There is a set of rectangles and a set of strips, where each strip has a pre-defined …

Generalized multiple strip packing problem: Formulations, applications, and solution algorithms

I Vasilyev, AV Ushakov, D Zhang, J Ren - Computers & Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we address a novel extension of the well-known multiple strip packing problem.
Given a set of rectangular items that must be packed into a set of strips of predefined widths …

A fast 5/2-approximation algorithm for hierarchical scheduling

M Bougeret, PF Dutot, K Jansen, C Otte… - Euro-Par 2010-Parallel …, 2010 - Springer
We present in this article a new approximation algorithm for scheduling a set of n
independent rigid (meaning requiring a fixed number of processors) jobs on hierarchical …

Linear time algorithms for multiple cluster scheduling and multiple strip packing

K Jansen, M Rau - European conference on parallel processing, 2019 - Springer
Abstract We study the Multiple Cluster Scheduling problem and the Multiple Strip Packing
problem. For both problems, there is no algorithm with approximation ratio better than 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Improved approximation algorithms for scheduling parallel jobs on identical clusters

M Bougeret, PF Dutot, D Trystram, K Jansen… - Theoretical Computer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multiple Cluster Scheduling Problem corresponds to minimizing the maximum
completion time (makespan) of a set of n parallel rigid (and non-preemptive) jobs submitted …