Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing

Thisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatthe8thWorkshoponJobSched- ingStrategiesforParallelProcessing,whichwasheldinconjunctionwith HPDC11andGGF5inEdinburgh,UK,onJuly24,2002. Thepapershave beenthroughacompletereviewprocess,withthefullversionbeingreadand evaluatedby?vetosevenmembersoftheprogramcommittee. Wewouldliketo takethisopportunitytothanktheprogramcommittee,AndreaArpaci-Dusseau, WalfredoCirne,AllenDowney,WolfgangGentzsch,AllanGottlieb,MoeJette, RichardLagerstrom,JensMache,CathyMcCann,ReaganMoore,BillNitzberg, MarkSquillante,andJohnTowns,foranexcellentjob. Thanksarealsodueto theauthorsfortheirsubmissions,presentations,and?nalrevisionsforthisv- ume. Finally,wewouldliketothanktheMITLaboratoryforComputerScience andtheSchoolofComputerScienceandEngineeringattheHebrewUniversity fortheuseoftheirfacilitiesinthepreparationoftheseproceedings. Thisyearsawanemphasisontwomainthemes. The?rstwastheclassical MPPschedulingarea. Themainfocusinthisareawasonback?lling,including severaladvancedvariationsonthebasicscheme. Itisalsonoteworthythatseveral papersdiscussedtheuseofadaptivenessinjobscheduling. Thesecondmajor themewasschedulinginthecontextofgridcomputing,whichisemergingasan areaofmuchactivityandrapidprogress. Thesearecomplementedbyaninvited paperprovidinganoverviewoftheschedulingandresourcemanagementareaof theGlobalGridForum(GGF)e?ort. Thiswastheeighthannualworkshopinthisseries,whichre?ectsthec- tinuedinterestinthisarea. Theproceedingsofpreviousworkshopsareavailable fromSpringer-VerlagasLNCSvolumes949,1162,1291,1459,1659,1911,and 2221(andsince1998theyhavealsobeenavailableonline). Wehopeyou?ndthesepapersinterestinganduseful. September2002 DrorFeitelson LarryRudolph UweSchwiegelshohn Table of Contents ASelf-TuningJobSchedulerFamilywithDynamicPolicySwitching ...1 AchimStreit PreemptionBasedBack?ll...24 QuinnO. Snell,MarkJ. Clement,andDavidB. Jackson JobSchedulingfortheBlueGene/LSystem...38 ElieKrevat,Jos'eG. Castan"Thisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatthe8thWorkshoponJobSched- ingStrategiesforParallelProcessing,whichwasheldinconjunctionwith HPDC11andGGF5inEdinburgh,UK,onJuly24,2002. Thepapershave beenthroughacompletereviewprocess,withthefullversionbeingreadand evaluatedby?vetosevenmembersoftheprogramcommittee. Wewouldliketo takethisopportunitytothanktheprogramcommittee,AndreaArpaci-Dusseau, WalfredoCirne,AllenDowney,WolfgangGentzsch,AllanGottlieb,MoeJette, RichardLagerstrom,JensMache,CathyMcCann,ReaganMoore,BillNitzberg, MarkSquillante,andJohnTowns,foranexcellentjob. Thanksarealsodueto theauthorsfortheirsubmissions,presentations,and?nalrevisionsforthisv- ume. Finally,wewouldliketothanktheMITLaboratoryforComputerScience andtheSchoolofComputerScienceandEngineeringattheHebrewUniversity fortheuseoftheirfacilitiesinthepreparationoftheseproceedings. Thisyearsawanemphasisontwomainthemes. The?rstwastheclassical MPPschedulingarea. Themainfocusinthisareawasonback?lling,including severaladvancedvariationsonthebasicscheme. Itisalsonoteworthythatseveral papersdiscussedtheuseofadaptivenessinjobscheduling. Thesecondmajor themewasschedulinginthecontextofgridcomputing,whichisemergingasan areaofmuchactivityandrapidprogress. Thesearecomplementedbyaninvited paperprovidinganoverviewoftheschedulingandresourcemanagementareaof theGlobalGridForum(GGF)e?ort. Thiswastheeighthannualworkshopinthisseries,whichre?ectsthec- tinuedinterestinthisarea. Theproceedingsofpreviousworkshopsareavailable fromSpringer-VerlagasLNCSvolumes949,1162,1291,1459,1659,1911,and 2221(andsince1998theyhavealsobeenavailableonline). Wehopeyou?ndthesepapersinterestinganduseful. September2002 DrorFeitelson LarryRudolph UweSchwiegelshohn Table of Contents ASelf-TuningJobSchedulerFamilywithDynamicPolicySwitching ...1 AchimStreit PreemptionBasedBack?ll...24 QuinnO. Snell,MarkJ. Clement,andDavidB. Jackson JobSchedulingfortheBlueGene/LSystem...38 ElieKrevat,Jos'eG. Castan"os,andJos'eE. Moreira SelectiveReservationStrategiesforBack?llJobScheduling...55 SrividyaSrinivasan,RajkumarKettimuthu,VijaySubrama...