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Task Scheduling Algorithms
Applicable when functional decomposition yields many small tasks.
Task pool is maintained into which tasks are placed for allocation to processors.
Tasks become data structures representing "subproblems" to be solved by set of workers (processors).
Which strategy is applied to allocate problems to workers?
Conflicting goals:
Independent operation (to reduce communication costs),
Global knowledge of computation state (to improve load balance).
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996
