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- Title
A new task scheduling method for distributed programs that require memory management.
- Authors
Koide, Hiroshi; Oie, Yuji
- Abstract
In parallel and distributed applications, it is very likely that object-oriented languages, such as Java and Ruby, and large-scale semistructured data written in XML will be employed. However, because of their inherent dynamic memory management, parallel and distributed applications must sometimes suspend the execution of all tasks running on the processors. This adversely affects their execution on the parallel and distributed platform. In this paper, we propose a new task scheduling method called CP/MM (Critical Path/Memory Management) which can efficiently schedule tasks for applications requiring memory management. The underlying concept is to consider the cost due to memory management when the task scheduling system allocates ready (executable) coarse-grain tasks, or macro-tasks, to processors. We have developed three task scheduling modules, including CP/MM, for a task scheduling system which is implemented on a Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) communication infrastructure. Our experimental results show that CP/MM can successfully prevent high-priority macro-tasks from being affected by the garbage collection arising from memory management, so that CP/MM can efficiently schedule distributed programs whose critical paths are relatively long. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
PRODUCTION scheduling; MANUFACTURING execution systems; GANTT charts; PROJECT management; OPERATIONS research; LINEAR programming; PRODUCTION control; PRODUCTION management (Manufacturing)
- Publication
Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 9, p941
- ISSN
1532-0626
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cpe.963