Scheduling Multithreaded Computations by Work Stealing

steal.pdf http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/steal.pdf

This paper studies the problem of eciently scheduling fully strict (i.e., wellstructured) multithreaded computations on parallel computers. A popular and practical method of scheduling this kind of dynamic MIMD-style computation is \work stealing," in which processors needing work steal computational threads from other processors. In this paper, we give the rst provably good work-stealing scheduler for multithreaded computations with dependencies.