Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: rudolph@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Larry Rudolph)
Subject: Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (Workshop)
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Date: 6 Apr 1995 21:22:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3m95j4$klb@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

			   PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

      Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
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	      in conjunction with IPPS '95, April 25, 1995
	       Red Lion Resort, Santa Barbara, California


Session 1: Introduction (8:30 - 9:30 AM)

Welcoming remarks

Parallel Job Scheduling: Issues and Approaches
   Dror G. Feitelson and Larry Rudolph

Cilk
   Charles E. Leiserson and Bradley C. Kuszmaul


Session 2: Systems (10:00 - 12:00 AM)

 Scheduling on the Tera MTA
   Gail Alverson, Simon Kahan, Richard Korry, Cathy McCann, and Burton Smith

 A Scalable Multi-Discipline, Multiple-Processor Scheduling
   Framework for IRIX
   James M. Barton and Nawaf Bitar

 Scheduling to Reduce Memory Coherence Overhead on Coarse-Grain
   Multiprocessors
   Christopher Connelly and Carla Schlatter Ellis

 Time Space Sharing Scheduling and architectural Support
   Atsushi Hori et al.

 Demand-Based Coscheduling of Parallel Jobs on Multiprogrammed
   Multiprocessors
   Patrick G. Sobalvarro and William E. Weihl


Session 3: Analysis and Alternatives (1:30 - 3:30 PM)

 Multiprocessor Scheduling for High-Variability Service Time
   Distributions
   Eric W. Parsons and Kenneth C. Sevcik

 The Interaction between Memory Allocation and Adaptive Partitioning
   in Message-Passing Multicomputers
   Sanjeev Setia

 Analysis of Non-Work-Conserving Processor Partitioning Policies
   E. Rosti, E. Smirni, G. Serazzi, and L. W. Dowdy

 Loop-Level Process Control: An Effective Processor Allocation
   Policy for Multiprogrammed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
   Kelvin K. Yue and David J. Lilja

 A Microeconomic Scheduler for Parallel Computers
   Ion Stoica, Hussein Abdel-Wahab, and Alex Pothen

 On the Benefits and Limitations of Dynamic Partitioning in Parallel
   Computer Systems
   Mark S. Squillante

 Discussion


Session 4: NOWs and Requirements (4:00 - 6:00 PM)

 Intelligent Fuzzy Control to Augment the Scheduling Capabilities of
   Network Queueing Systems
   Oscar Kipersztok and James C. Patterson

 Parallel Processing on Dynamic Resources with CARMI
   Jim Pruyne and Miron Livny

 Job Scheduling Under the Portable Batch System
   Robert L. Henderson

 The ANL/IBM SP Scheduling System
   David Lifka,

 Requirements of the Cornell Theory Center for Resource Management
   and Process Scheduling
   Marcy E. Rosenkrantz, David Schneider, Roslyn Leibensperger,
   Melinda Shore, and John Zollweg

 Job Management Requirements for NAS Parallel Systems and Clusters
   William Saphir, Leigh Ann Tanner, and Bernard Traversat

 Job Characteristics of a Production Parallel Scientific Workload on
   the NASA Ames iPSC/860
   Dror G. Feitelson and Bill Nitzberg,

  Discussion

