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#### Linear-time approximation schemes for scheduling malleable parallel tasks

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Jansen,  Klaus
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Porkolab,  Lorant
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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##### Citation

Jansen, K., & Porkolab, L.(1998). Linear-time approximation schemes for scheduling malleable parallel tasks (MPI-I-1998-1-025). Saarbrücken: Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik.

Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-7B6C-D
##### Abstract
A malleable parallel task is one whose execution time is a function of the number of (identical) processors alloted to it. We study the problem of scheduling a set of $n$ independent malleable tasks on a fixed number of parallel processors, and propose an approximation scheme that for any fixed $\epsilon > 0$, computes in $O(n)$ time a non-preemptive schedule of length at most $(1+\epsilon)$ times the optimum.