{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2076472694","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676727.2676728","title":"The X-flex cross-platform scheduler","display_name":"The X-flex cross-platform scheduler","publication_year":2014,"publication_date":"2014-12-08","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2076472694","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676727.2676728","mag":"2076472694"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/2676727.2676728","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676727.2676728","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Middleware Industry Track","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5065314353","display_name":"Joel L. Wolf","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Joel Wolf","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5071057844","display_name":"Zubair Nabi","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zubair Nabi","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5051270969","display_name":"Viswanath Nagarajan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9514-5581"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I27837315","display_name":"University of Michigan\u2013Ann Arbor","ror":"https://ror.org/00jmfr291","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Viswanath Nagarajan","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Michigan","(University of Michigan)"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Michigan","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"(University of Michigan)","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5013485427","display_name":"Robert Saccone","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Robert Saccone","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5088803122","display_name":"Rohit Wagle","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Rohit Wagle","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5074888713","display_name":"Kirsten Hildrum","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kirsten Hildrum","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5079585152","display_name":"Edward Pring","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1341412227","display_name":"IBM (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/05hh8d621","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Edward Pring","raw_affiliation_strings":["IBM Research","IBM Research, -"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"IBM Research, -","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5047410299","display_name":"Kanthi Sarpatwar","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7737-1200"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I66946132","display_name":"University of Maryland, College Park","ror":"https://ror.org/047s2c258","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I66946132"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kanthi Sarpatwar","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Maryland"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Maryland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I66946132"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":8,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5065314353"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1341412227"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.4208367,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":4,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.91182481,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":96},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"1","last_page":"7"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10101","display_name":"Cloud Computing and Resource Management","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10101","display_name":"Cloud Computing and Resource Management","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10715","display_name":"Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems","score":0.9987000226974487,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.998199999332428,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/flex","display_name":"FLEX","score":0.9875643253326416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7538280487060547},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scheduling","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","score":0.7036327719688416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/distributed-computing","display_name":"Distributed computing","score":0.3847351670265198},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.1167026162147522},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/operations-management","display_name":"Operations management","score":0.08535310626029968}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776252893","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1364836","display_name":"FLEX","level":2,"score":0.9875643253326416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7538280487060547},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C206729178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2271896","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","level":2,"score":0.7036327719688416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120314980","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180634","display_name":"Distributed computing","level":1,"score":0.3847351670265198},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.1167026162147522},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C21547014","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423657","display_name":"Operations management","level":1,"score":0.08535310626029968},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/2676727.2676728","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676727.2676728","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Middleware Industry Track","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/8","display_name":"Decent work and economic growth","score":0.46000000834465027}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":33,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W67188827","https://openalex.org/W98859305","https://openalex.org/W110825830","https://openalex.org/W236893983","https://openalex.org/W259012431","https://openalex.org/W1508832460","https://openalex.org/W1548105861","https://openalex.org/W1692590824","https://openalex.org/W1890643295","https://openalex.org/W2013198217","https://openalex.org/W2030980368","https://openalex.org/W2043718972","https://openalex.org/W2053641648","https://openalex.org/W2060976275","https://openalex.org/W2065021581","https://openalex.org/W2072637364","https://openalex.org/W2076472694","https://openalex.org/W2102849319","https://openalex.org/W2105947650","https://openalex.org/W2117366456","https://openalex.org/W2120422789","https://openalex.org/W2131975293","https://openalex.org/W2133569115","https://openalex.org/W2148317584","https://openalex.org/W2155053108","https://openalex.org/W2158760370","https://openalex.org/W2160121678","https://openalex.org/W2163961697","https://openalex.org/W2173213060","https://openalex.org/W2611804663","https://openalex.org/W4300550233","https://openalex.org/W6603996921","https://openalex.org/W6844382842"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4391375266","https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W4250698707","https://openalex.org/W4244545186","https://openalex.org/W4247748223","https://openalex.org/W1008394927","https://openalex.org/W183173419","https://openalex.org/W4253292776","https://openalex.org/W2483231410","https://openalex.org/W4402871433"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"We":[0,166],"introduce":[1],"the":[2,13,68,72,107,124,128,156,168],"X-Flex":[3,6,32,48,86,143,172],"cross-platform":[4],"scheduler.":[5,110],"is":[7,39,65,81,88,99],"intended":[8],"as":[9],"an":[10,42,101],"alternative":[11],"to":[12,54,93,103,136,176],"Dominant":[14],"Resource":[15],"Fairness":[16],"(DRF)":[17],"scheduler":[18],"currently":[19],"employed":[20],"by":[21],"both":[22],"YARN":[23],"and":[24,33,146,173],"Mesos.":[25],"There":[26],"are":[27],"multiple":[28,104],"design":[29],"differences":[30],"between":[31],"DRF.":[34],"For":[35],"one":[36],"thing,":[37],"DRF":[38,80,98],"based":[40],"on":[41,123],"instantaneous":[43,50,62],"notion":[44],"of":[45,61,74,106,153,158,171],"fairness,":[46],"while":[47,84],"monitors":[49],"fairness":[51,63],"in":[52,79,85,91],"order":[53,92],"take":[55],"a":[56,118,150],"long-term":[57],"view.":[58],"The":[59],"definition":[60],"itself":[64],"different":[66],"among":[67],"two":[69],"schedulers.":[70],"Furthermore,":[71],"packing":[73,95],"containers":[75],"into":[76],"processing":[77],"nodes":[78],"done":[82],"online,":[83],"it":[87,113],"performed":[89],"offline":[90],"improve":[94],"quality.":[96],"Finally,":[97],"essentially":[100],"extension":[102],"dimensions":[105],"Fair":[108],"MapReduce":[109],"As":[111],"such":[112],"makes":[114],"scheduling":[115,140],"decisions":[116],"at":[117],"very":[119],"low":[120],"level.":[121],"X-Flex,":[122],"other":[125,164],"hand,":[126],"takes":[127],"perspective":[129],"that":[130],"some":[131],"frameworks":[132],"have":[133],"sufficient":[134],"structure":[135],"make":[137],"higher":[138],"level":[139],"decisions.":[141],"So":[142],"allows":[144],"this,":[145],"also":[147],"gives":[148],"platforms":[149],"great":[151],"deal":[152],"autonomy":[154],"over":[155],"degree":[157],"sharing":[159],"they":[160],"will":[161],"permit":[162],"with":[163],"platforms.":[165],"describe":[167],"technical":[169],"details":[170],"provide":[174],"experiments":[175],"show":[177],"its":[178],"excellent":[179],"performance.":[180]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2025-11-06T03:46:38.306776","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}