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work stealing: a standalone construct

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Parallel computing

a scheduling scheme in which idle processors take tasks from the queues of busy ones, with provable bounds on time, space and communication.

In parallel computing, work stealing refers to a scheduling scheme in which idle processors take tasks from the queues of busy ones, with provable bounds on time, space and communication. This meaning comes from Blumofe (1999) in Journal of the ACM.[1]

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References

Blumofe, R. D., & Leiserson, C. E. (1999). Scheduling multithreaded computations by work stealing. Journal of the ACM, 46(5), 720-748. https://doi.org/10.1145/324133.324234

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