A hybrid bin-packing heuristic to multiprocessor scheduling

The multiprocessor scheduling problem consists in scheduling a set of tasks with known processing times into a set of identical processors so as to minimize their makespan, i.e., the maximum processing time over all processors. We propose a new heuristic for solving the multiprocessor scheduling problem, based on a hybrid heuristic to the bin packing problem. Computational results illustrating the effectiveness of this approach are reported and compared with those obtained by other heuristics.

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Research report, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Computer Science, February 2004.

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