Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing : 14th International Workshop, JSSPP 2009, Rome, Italy, May 29, 2009, Revised Papers

th Thisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatthe14 workshoponJobSched- ing Strategies for ParallelProcessing.The workshop was held in Rome, Italy, on May 29, 2009, in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium 2009. This year 25 papers were submitted to the workshop. All submitted - pers went through a complete review process, with the full version being read and evaluated by an average of four reviewers. We would like to especially thank the program committee members and additional referees for their wi- ingness to participate in this e?ort and their excellent, detailed reviews: Su-Hui Chiang,Walfredo Cirne,Allen Downey,DrorFeitelson, Alexander Fo ¨lling,Allan Gottlieb, Christian Grimme, Andrew Grimshaw, Moe Jette, Joachim Lepping, Raquel Lopes, Reagan Moore, Jose Moreira, Bill Nitzberg, Alexander Papas- rou,Lars Schley, Mark Squillante, John Towns,Dan Tsafrir,Jon Weissman, and Philipp Wieder. Asaresultofthereviewprocess14paperswereacceptedfororalpresentation at the workshop. One additional paper is included in these proceedings after making substantial improvements based on the comments of the referees. The ?nal versions of the papers in this volume have addressed the comments of the referees and partially re?ect the discussions held during the workshop.