Tentative Advance Program

September 4 (Tuesday)

Session 1:
Session Chair: P. Sadayappan

Jesus Labarta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Title: Integrated Scheduling: From Application to System

Gang Scheduling with Lightweight User-Level Communication
Eitan Frachtenberg, Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll, Wu-Chun Feng

Session 2:
Session Chair: Fusun Ozguner

A New Task Mapping Technique for Communication-Aware Scheduling Strategies
J. M. Orduna and J. Duato

Improving Cluster Utilization Through Set Based Allocation Policies
David B. Jackson, Brian Haymore, Julio Facelli and Quinn Q. Snell

The Design and Performance of an Intelligent Jini Load Balancing Service
Lap-Sun Cheung and Yu-Kwong Kwok

Session 3:
Session Chair: Jose Duato

Stochastic Scheduling of a Meta-task in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing
Atakan Dogan and Fusun Ozguner

Improving Static Scheduling Using Inter-task Concurrency Measures
C. Roig, A. Ripoll, M. A. Senar, F. Guirado and E. Luque

Comparison of Contention Aware List Scheduling Heuristics for Cluster Computing
Oliver Sinnen and Leonel Sousa

Session 4:
Session Chair: David Jackson

Design of a Multicast NFS Server Over a High Speed Network Used as Parallel Multimedia Platform
T. Olivares, F. J. Quiles, A. Garrido, P. J. García and L. Orozco-Barbosa

An Efficient OS Support for Communication on Linux Clusters
A.F. Díaz, J. Ortega, M. Anguita, A. Cañas, and A. Prieto

Using a Classifier System to Improve Dynamic Load Balancing
Jan M. Correa and Alba C. Melo