Who needs a scheduler?

Anne Benoit (1, 2) , Loris Marchal (1, 2) , Yves Robert (1, 2)

1 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
2 ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon

This position paper advocates the need for scheduling. Even if resources at our disposal would become abundant and cheap, not to say unlimited and free (a~perspective that is not granted), we would still need to assign the right task to the right device. We give several simple examples of such situations where resource selection and allocation is mandatory. Finally we expose our views on the important algorithmic challenges that need be addressed in the future.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Anne Benoit, Loris Marchal, Yves Robert. Who needs a scheduler?. [Research Report] LIP RR-2008-34, Laboratoire de l'informatique du parallélisme. 2008, 11p. ⟨hal-02102807⟩