Title
Parallel Prefetching and Caching Is Hard
Abstract
In this paper we study integrated prefetching and caching in parallel disk systems. This topic has gained a lot of interest in the last years which manifests itself in numerous recent approximation algorithms. This paper provides the first negative result in this area by showing that optimizing the stall time is APX-hard. This also implies that computing the optimal processing time is NP-hard, which settles an open problem posed by Kimbrel and Karlin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-24749-4_19
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Approximation algorithm,Open problem,Computer science,CPU cache,Parallel computing,Algorithm,Minimum time,Distributed computing
Conference
2996
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.38
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christoph Ambühl135718.50
Birgitta Weber2201.67