Cluster Scheduling for Explicitly Speculative Tasks

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Computer Graphics,
Productivity,
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Overview: Large-scale computing often consists of many speculative tasks to test hypotheses, search for insights, and review potentially finished products. E.g., speculative tasks are issued by bioinformaticists comparing DNA sequences and computer graphics artists adjusting scene properties. This paper promotes a way of working that exploits the inherent speculation in application-level search made more common by the cost-effectiveness of grid and cluster computing.

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Format: PDF | Size: 433KB | Date: Jun 2004 | Pages: 10

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