Experiments with scheduling divisible tasks in clusters of workstations

Abstract

We present results of a series of experiments with parallel processing divisible tasks on various cluster of workstations platforms. Divisible task is a new model of scheduling distributed computations. It is assumed that the parallel application can be divided into parts of arbitrary sizes and the parts can be processed independently on distributed computers. Though practical verification of the scheduling model was the primary goal of the experiments also an insight into the behavior and performance of cluster computing platforms has been gained.