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Heterogeneous computing (HC) environment consists of different resources connected with high-speed links to provide a variety of computational capabilities for computing-intensive applications having multifarious computational requirements. The problem of optimal assignment of tasks to machines in HC environment is proven to be NP-complete requiring use of heuristics to find the near optimal solution. In this work we conduct a performance study of task scheduling heuristics in HC environment. Overall we have implemented 16 heuristics, among them 7 are proposed in this paper. Based on experimental results we specify the circumstances under which one heuristic will outperform the others.
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Munir, E.U., Li, J., Shi, S., Zou, Z., Rasool, Q. (2008). A Performance Study of Task Scheduling Heuristics in HC Environment. In: Le Thi, H.A., Bouvry, P., Pham Dinh, T. (eds) Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences. MCO 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87477-5_24
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