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9.1 Future Work

Now that we have a better understanding of the conditions under which characteristics of parallel programs can be used to reduce mean response time and a better grasp of the size of the reductions that can be expected, we plan to examine the importance of these job characteristics and the relative performance of the algorithms investigated here while considering different job models. (A modified model that includes limitations on a job's maximum parallelism as well as the maximum number of processors a job can use efficiently has already been considered [12].) We hope to more fully explore variations on our tex2html_wrap_inline801 algorithm and to try to determine the optimal allocation given the job, workload and system models used in this paper. We are also interested in trying to apply our tex2html_wrap_inline801 technique in a static scheduling environment.



Tim Brecht
Thu Jul 24 14:20:29 EDT 1997