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An Optimal Preemptive Algorithm for Online MapReduce Scheduling on Two Parallel Machines

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  • Yiwei Jiang

    (School of Management and E-Business, Contemporary Business and Trade Research Center, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, P. R. China)

  • Wei Zhou

    (Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, P. R. China)

  • Ping Zhou

    (College of Humanities, Zhejiang Business College, Hangzhou 310053, P. R. China)

Abstract

In this paper, we study an online scheduling on two parallel machines in MapReduce-like system where each job contains two kinds of tasks: map tasks and reduce tasks. A job’s reduce tasks can only be processed after all its map tasks are finished. We assume that the map tasks are fractional and the reduce tasks are preemptive. Our objective is to minimize makespan. We show that the lower bound for this MapReduce scheduling problem is 2. We then present an online algorithm with competitive ratio of 2 and thus it is optimal.

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  • Yiwei Jiang & Wei Zhou & Ping Zhou, 2018. "An Optimal Preemptive Algorithm for Online MapReduce Scheduling on Two Parallel Machines," Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 35(03), pages 1-11, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:apjorx:v:35:y:2018:i:03:n:s0217595918500136
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217595918500136
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    1. Cong Chen & Yinfeng Xu & Yuqing Zhu & Chengyu Sun, 2017. "Online MapReduce scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 33(2), pages 590-608, February.
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    1. Yiwei Jiang & Ping Zhou & Wei Zhou, 2019. "MapReduce machine covering problem on a small number of machines," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 38(4), pages 1066-1076, November.

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