This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2013, held Boston, MA, USA, in May 2013. The 10 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers cover the following topics parallel scheduling for commercial environments, scientific computing, supercomputing and cluster platforms.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2012, which was held in Shanghai, China, in May 2012. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: parallel batch scheduling; workload analysis and modeling; resource management system software studies; and Web scheduling.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2020, held in New Orleans, LA, USA, in May 2020.*The 6 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. In addition to this, one invited paper and one keynote pare were included in the workshop. The papers cover topics within the fields of resource management and scheduling. They focus on several interesting problems such as resource contention and workload interference, new scheduling policy, scheduling ultrasound simulation workflows, and walltime prediction. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2018, held in Vancouver, Canada, in May 2018. The 7 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from12 submissions. The papers cover topics in the fields of design and evaluation of new scheduling approaches. They focus on several interesting problems in resource management and scheduling.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2017, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in June 2017.The 10 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers cover topics in the fields of design and evaluation of new scheduling approaches; performance evaluation of scheduling approaches; workloads; consideration of additional constraints in scheduling systems; scaling and composition of very large scheduling systems; cloud provider issues; interaction between schedulers on different levels; interaction between applications/workloads; experience reports from production systems or large scale compute campaigns.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th and 20th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2015 and 2016, held respectively in Hyderabad, India, on May 26, 2015 and in Chicago, IL, USA, on May 27, 2016. The 14 revised full papers presented (7 papers in 2015 and 7 papers in 2016) were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions (14 in 2015 and 14 in 2016). The papers cover the following topics: parallel scheduling raising challenges multiple levels of abstractions; node level parallelism; minimization of energy consumption in task migration within a many-core chip; task replication in real-time scheduling context; data-driven approach to schedule GPU load; the use of lock-free data structures in OS scheduler; the influence between user behaviour (think time, more precisely) and parallel scheduling; Evalix, a predictor for job resource consumption; sophisticated and realistic simulation; space-filling curves leading to better scheduling of large-scale computers; discussion of real-life production experiences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2014, held in Phoenix, AZ, USA, in May 2014. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: single-core parallelism; moving to distributed-memory, larger-scale systems, scheduling fairness; and parallel job scheduling.

In honour of Johan Galtung at 80, Experiments with Peace features forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Narayan Desai, along with chapters from 34 other leading contributors in celebration of peace and non-violent struggles for justice and the peaceful resolution of conflict. Peace has been the overarching theme in Johan Galtung's many endeavours throughout his long life's journey. And what a journey it has been in so many respects: not only in his path covering the world's five continents by visits to universities, politicians, activists and challenging zones of conflict, but also in his readiness to see new areas, new groups and new angles. From his very first academic years to the hectic days around his 80th anniversary, his always challenging approach to peace brings anything but tranquillity to the conversation and discourse he engages in. What may appear as stubbornness or love for the confrontational is the facade of an unwavering dedication to this pursuit of peace, be it in understanding the micro-relationship between spouses or family members, or grasping, analysing and confronting the vast structures of imperial domination on a global scale over decades. Galtung's engagement does not stop at understanding but seeks to change and move, as evidenced by his response on the issue of 'September 11 2001: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy'. Given Johan Galtung's broad output of around 120 books and 1,000 articles, the selection of a few examples can in no way do justice to his writing. In addition to a vast production of books, research and articles, and a frantic travelling schedule between lectures and meetings is the impressive list of institutions he has initiated from the very first days of his long academic career. After receiving his mag. art. degree in 1957, Galtung moved to Columbia University in New York, returning to Oslo in 1959, where he founded the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO). As its director for 10 years he saw the institute develop from a department within the Norwegian Institute of Social Research into an independent research institute. In 1964 the first academic journal devoted to Peace Studies: the Journal of Peace Research was established, and that same year Galtung assisted in the founding of the International Peace Research Association. In 1969 Galtung became professor of peace and conflict research at the University of Oslo, a position he held until 1978. He then served as the director general of the International University Centre in Dubrovnik, as well as president of the World Future Studies Federation. He has also held visiting positions at other universities, including Santiago, Chile, the United Nations University in Geneva, and at Columbia, Princeton and the University of Hawaii. He is currently teaching at Saybrook University. The late Elise Boulding, who knew him like few others, stated that Johan Galtung has served at so many universities 'that he has probably taught more students on more campuses around the world than any other contemporary sociologist'. 'I love to salute this peacemaker on his 80th birthday. I know he will celebrate it at many events in many countries. I am told that he will use all these opportunities as he has used his life as a peacemaker.' Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner 'Today [Johan's] extraordinary and exemplary labour is recognised not only by those who work for peace, but also by those who are directly engaged in wars. Not only are cupboards in UN and UNESCO libraries filled with books and papers produced by him, but his advice is often sought as an expert by conflicting parties.' Narayan Desai, Gandhian scholar and activist