A taxonomy of scheduling in general-purpose distributed computing systems
Thomas L. Casavant, Jon G. Kuhl · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1988
One measure of the usefulness of a general-purpose distributed computing system is the system's ability to provide a level of performance commensurate to the degree of multiplicity of resources present in the system. A taxonomy of approaches to the resource management problem is presented in an attempt to provide a common terminology and classification mechanism necessary in addressing this problem. The taxonomy, while presented and discussed in terms of distributed scheduling, is also applicable to most types of resource management.>