In a heterogeneous multi-cluster (HMC) system, processor allocation is responsible for
choosing available processors among clusters for job execution. Traditionally, processor
allocation in HMC considers only resource fragmentation or processor heterogeneity, which
leads to heuristics such as Best-Fit (BF) and Fastest-First (FF). However, those heuristics
only favor certain types of workloads and cannot be changed adaptively. In this paper, a
temporal look-ahead (TLA) method is proposed, which uses an allocation simulation …