Load Balancing: The Long Road from Theory to Practice

Berndt, Sebastian; Deppert, Max A.; Jansen, Klaus; Rohwedder, Lars

doi:10.1137/1.9781611977042.9

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“…The Steinitz problem, which is closely related to prefix discrepancy, has many seen applications, including flow shop and job shop scheduling [Bár81,Sev94] and faster algorithms for solving integer programs [BMMP12, EW18, JR19] and these integer programming algorithms themselves are applied in some scheduling problems, see for example [BDJR22].…”

Section: Max Flow Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Flow Time Scheduling and Prefix Beck-Fiala

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Rohwedder²,

Svensson³

2022

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We relate discrepancy theory with the classic scheduling problems of minimizing max flow time and total flow time on unrelated machines. Specifically, we give a general reduction that allows us to transfer discrepancy bounds in the prefix Beck-Fiala (bounded ℓ 1 -norm) setting to bounds on the flow time of an optimal schedule.Combining our reduction with a deep result proved by Banaszczyk via convex geometry, give guarantees of O( √ log n) and O( √ log n log P ) for max flow time and total flow time, respectively, improving upon the previous best guarantees of O(log n) and O(log n log P ). Apart from the improved guarantees, the reduction motivates seemingly easy versions of prefix discrepancy questions: any constant bound on prefix Beck-Fiala where vectors have sparsity two (sparsity one being trivial) would already yield tight guarantees for both max flow time and total flow time. While known techniques solve this case when the entries take values in {−1, 0, 1}, we show that they are unlikely to transfer to the more general 2-sparse case of bounded ℓ 1 -norm.

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Section: Max Flow Timementioning

confidence: 99%