SCHEDULING PARALLEL PROGRAM TASKS WITH NON-NEGLIGIBLE INTERTASK COMMUNICATIONS ON TO NUMA MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS
Guan-Joe Lai, Cheng Chen · International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems · 1997
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of scheduling parallel tasks onto non-uniform memory access (NUMA) shared-memory multiprocessor systems by considering non-negligible intertask communications and communication contentions. Communication contentions arise from the communication medium having insufficient capacity to serve all transmissions, thereby causing significant contention delays. Therefore, a new scheduling algorithm, herein referred to as the Extended Critical Path (ECP) algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm schedules parallel tasks by considering non-negligible intertask communications and the contentions among shared communication resources. Moreover, it ensures performance within a factor of two of the optimum for general directed acyclic task graphs (DATGs). Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the ECP algorithm over the scheduling algorithms presented in previous literature.