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Article Dans Une Revue Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Année : 1999

Analysis of an Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Independent Parallel Tasks

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In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling independent parallel tasks in parallel systems with identical processors. The problem is NP-hard, since it includes the bin packing problem as a special case when all tasks have unit execution time. We propose and analyze a simple approximation algorithm called H_m, where m is a positive integer. Algorithm H_m has a moderate asymptotic worst-case performance ratio in the range [4/3 ... 31/18] for all m≥ 6; but the algorithm has a small asymptotic worst-case performance ratio in the range [1+1/(r+1)..1+1/r], when task sizes do not exceed 1/r of the total available processors, where r>1 is an integer. Furthermore, we show that if the task sizes are independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) uniform random variables, and task execution times are i.i.d. random variables with finite mean and variance, then the average-case performance ratio of algorithm H_m is no larger than 1.2898680..., and for an exponential distribution of task sizes, it does not exceed 1.2898305.... As demonstrated by our analytical as well as numerical results, the average-case performance ratio improves significantly when tasks request for smaller numbers of processors.
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hal-00958934 , version 1 (13-03-2014)

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Keqin Li. Analysis of an Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Independent Parallel Tasks. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 1999, Vol. 3 no. 4 (4), pp.155-166. ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.262⟩. ⟨hal-00958934⟩

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