Impossible Choices: How Workers Manage Unpredictable Scheduling Practices

P35: How to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. Sensations of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can become an illness. Anxiety is part of the normal human experience. We may speculate that it served human survival during evolution by enhancing preparedness and alertness. However, anxious manifestations...

Scheduling in Unpredictable Environments

The benefits of scheduling are well known; however, even in a partially unpredictable execution environment, failure to deal with these variations can cause serious deterioration of these benefits. It has been suggested that such circumstances may benefit from the combination of a global scheduler responsible for establishing overall execution requirements with a local dispatcher responsible fo...

How to Believe the Impossible

p35: how to manage anxiety

anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. sensations of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can become an illness. anxiety is part of the normal human experience. we may speculate that it served human survival during evolution by enhancing preparedness and alertness. however, anxious manifestations...

Scatter Scheduling for Problems with Unpredictable Structures

An extended scatter scheduling was applied to problems with unpredictable, asynchronous structures. It has been found that with this simple scheduling strategy, good load balance can be reached without incurring much runtime overhead. This scheduling algorithm has been implemented on hypercube machines , and its performance is compared with other scheduling strategies.