This book presents task-scheduling techniques for emerging complex parallel architectures including heterogeneous multi-core architectures, warehouse-scale datacenters, and distributed big data processing systems. The demand for high computational capacity has led to the growing popularity of multicore processors, which have become the mainstream in both the research and real-world settings. Yet to date, there is no book exploring the current task-scheduling techniques for the emerging complex parallel architectures.

Addressing this gap, the book discusses state-of-the-art task-scheduling techniques that are optimized for different architectures, and which can be directly applied in real parallel systems. Further, the book provides an overview of the latest advances in task-scheduling policies in parallel architectures, and will help readers understand and overcome current and emerging issues in this field.

Introduces readers to the latest advances in task-scheduling approaches for today's complex architectures

Provides practitioners and professionals valuable experiences and insights on concrete applications to parallel systems

Includes original ideas and novel task-scheduling algorithms for the new scenarios of multi-core architectures

Discusses current and emerging problems in task-scheduling techniques for complex parallel architectures