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From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Data Parallel Computation Scheduler - Prophet
Automatic run-time scheduling system for SPMD computations.
Helps with processor selection, data decomposition, task placement.
Chooses the best subset of processors to use based on the problem computation granularity.
Decomposes data to provide processor load balance.
Assigns tasks to processors to limit communication overhead.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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