A Study for Scheduling Jobs on Unrelated Parallel Processors

Lagrangian relaxation is used to the problem of scheduling jobs on unrelated parallel processors with the objective of minimizing makespan. The implicit condition for optimality is drawn out explicitly in order to apply the subgradient algorithm. To obtain the optimal solution, branch-and-bound-search method is devised. In the search, the special structure of the problem is exploited effectively, Some computational experiences with the algorithm are presented, and comparisons are made with the Land and Doig method.