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Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 15, 2010
Applicants:

Kirsten W. Hildrum, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Rohit M. Khandekar, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Vibhore Kumar, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Sujay S. Parekh, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Deepak Rajan, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Joel L. Wolf, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Kun-lung Wu, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kirsten W. Hildrum, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Rohit M. Khandekar, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Vibhore Kumar, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Sujay S. Parekh, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Deepak Rajan, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Joel L. Wolf, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Kun-Lung Wu, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for scheduling a data processing job includes receiving the data processing job formed of a plurality of computing units, combining the plurality of computing units into a plurality of sets of tasks, each set including tasks of about equal estimated size, and different sets having different sized tasks, and assigning the tasks to a plurality of processors using a dynamic longest processing time (DLPT) scheme.


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