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# MPI-I-98-1-025

## Linear-time approximation schemes for scheduling malleable parallel tasks

### Jansen, Klaus and Porkolab, Lorant

MPI-I-98-1-025. November 1998, 15 pages. | Status: available - back from printing | Next --> Entry | Previous <-- Entry

Abstract in LaTeX format:
A malleable parallel task is one whose execution time is a function of the
number of (identical) processors alloted to it. We study the problem of
scheduling a set of $n$ independent malleable tasks on a fixed number of
parallel processors, and propose an approximation scheme that for any fixed
$\epsilon > 0$, computes in $O(n)$ time a non-preemptive schedule of length
at most $(1+\epsilon)$ times the optimum.

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BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{JansenPorkolab98-1-025,
AUTHOR = {Jansen, Klaus and Porkolab, Lorant},
TITLE = {Linear-time approximation schemes for scheduling malleable parallel tasks},
TYPE = {Research Report},
INSTITUTION = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},