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From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Data Parallel Computation Scheduler
2 Prophet is an automatic run-time scheduling system for SPMD computations designed for heterogeneous workstation networks.
3 Prophet solves three problems associated with scheduling data parallel computations in this environment:
  • (1) Processor selection (2) Data domain decomposition(3) Task placement.
  • Processor selection chooses the best subset of processors to use based on the problem computation granularity.
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