Description
This volume contains the papers presented at the f th workshop on Job SchedulingStrategiesforParallelProcessing,whichwasheldinconjunctionwith the IPPS/SPDP’99conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 16, 1999.The papers have been through a complete refereeing process, with the full version beingreadandevaluatedbyv etosevenmembersoftheprogramcommittee.We would like to take this opportunity to thank the program committee, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Stephen Booth, Allen Downey, Allan Gottlieb, Atsushi Hori, PhilKrueger,RichardLagerstrom,MironLivny,VirginiaLo,ReaganMoore,Bill Nitzberg,UweSchwiegelshohn,KenSevcik,MarkSquillante,andJohnZahorjan, for an excellent job. Thanks are also due to the authors for their submissions, presentations,and nal revisionsfor this volume. Finally,we wouldlike to thank the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the Computer Science Institute at the Hebrew Universityfor the use of their facilities in the preparationof these proceedings.