Everything about Many-task computing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Many-task computingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Hybrid Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Multi-Server Mobile Edge Computing NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer Engineering and TechnologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific ComputingCited 629 times
5. Go sideways: Pilot jobA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: High-throughput computingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific Computing

  A Iosup, S Ostermann, M N Yigitbasi · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 629 citations

• Many-to-Many Task Offloading in Vehicular Fog Computing: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

  Zhiwei Wei, Bing Li, Rongqing Zhang · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 97 citations

• Asymptotic scheduling for many task computing in Big Data platforms

  Andrei Sfrent, Florin Pop · 2015 · Information Sciences · 85 citations

• A many-objective optimized task allocation scheduling model in cloud computing

  Jialei Xu, Zhixia Zhang, Zhaoming Hu · 2020 · Applied Intelligence · 35 citations

• Middleware support for many-task computing

  Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde · 2010 · Cluster Computing · 33 citations

• Parameter Exploration in Science and Engineering Using Many-Task Computing

  D Abramson, B Bethwaite, C Enticott · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 22 citations

• Efficient algorithms for frequent pattern mining in many-task computing environments

  Kawuu W. Lin, Yu-Chin Lo · 2013 · Knowledge-Based Systems · 22 citations

• A Data Throughput Prediction and Optimization Service for Widely Distributed Many-Task Computing

  Dengpan Yin, E Yildirim, S Kulasekaran · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 20 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Hybrid Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Multi-Server Mobile Edge Computing Networks

  Jiangjiang Zhang, Bei Gong, Muhammad Waqas · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · 36 citations

• Many-to-many matching based task allocation for dispersed computing

  Hongwen Hui, Fuhong Lin, Lei Meng · 2023 · Computing · 6 citations

• Efficient complex task offloading in blockchain-secured edge computing using a many-objective evolutionary algorithm

  Shilong Li, Wenping Ma · 2026 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 3 citations

• Many-objective joint optimization for dependency-aware task offloading and service caching in mobile edge computing

  · 2024 · KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems · 1 citations

• Research on Automatic Optimization Technology of Container Intra-parallelism for Many-Task Computing in the Cloud

  Hyeock-Jin Lee, Jik-Soo Kim · 2024 · KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer Engineering and TechnologyWeixia Xu · 2013
• Technical CommunicationJohn M. Lannon · 2000
• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• Word 2010 for DummiesDan Gookin, Judith Muhr · 2010
• Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• Sweating BulletsRobert Gaskins · 2012

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