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Methods for Job Scheduling on Computational Grids: Review and Comparison

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This paper provides a review of heuristics and metaheuristics methods, to solve the job scheduling problem in grid systems under the ETC (Expected Time to Compute) model. The problem is an important issue for efficient resource management in computational grids, which is performed by schedulers of these High Performance Computing systems. We present an overview of methods and a comparison of the results reported in the papers that use ETC model. The best methods are identified according to Braun et al. instances [8], which are ETC model instances most used in literature. This survey can help new researchers to lead them directly at the best scheduling algorithms already available to perform deep future works.

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The authors thank to the University of Luxembourg for providing us with algorithms to test their performance with instances of Braun et al. benchmark.

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    Edson Flórez & Carlos J. Barrios

  2. Computer Science and Communications Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

    Johnatan E. Pecero

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Flórez, E., Barrios, C.J., Pecero, J.E. (2015). Methods for Job Scheduling on Computational Grids: Review and Comparison. In: Osthoff, C., Navaux, P., Barrios Hernandez, C., Silva Dias, P. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 565. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26928-3_2

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