Energy Efficient Scheduling in Heterogeneous Systems with a Parallel Multiobjective Local Search

peer reviewedThis article introduces ME-MLS, an e cient multithreading local search algorithm for solving the multiobjective scheduling problem in heterogeneous com- puting systems. We consider the minimization of both the makespan and energy consumption objectives. The proposed method follows a fully multiobjective ap- proach, applying a Pareto-based dominance search that is executed in parallel by using several threads. The experimental analysis demonstrates that the new multi- threading algorithm outperforms a set of fast and accurate two-phases deterministic heuristics based on the traditional MinMin. The new ME-MLS method is able to achieve signi cant improvements in both makespan and energy consumption objec- tives in reduced execution times for a large set of testbed instances, while exhibiting a near linear speedup behavior when using up to 24 threads