Process Rescheduling in High Performance Computing Environments

Scheduling is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process (Min et al., 2009). In manufacturing, the purpose of production scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by informing a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment (Zhu et al., 2011). Nowadays, it is possible to observe the use of specific computational tools for production scheduling in which greatly outperform older manual scheduling methods. These tools implement mathematical programming methods that model the problem as an optimization issue where some objective, e.g. total duration, must be minimized (or yet maximized) (Yao & Zhu, 2010).