Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Conventional Task Scheduling - Chapter 3 Task Scheduling for Multi-socket Architecture.- Chapter 4 Task Scheduling for NUMA-enabled Architecture.- Chapter 5 Task Scheduling for Asymmetric Multi-core Architecture.- Chapter 6 Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Parallel Architecture - Chapter 7 Task Scheduling for Datacenter.- Chapter 8 Task Scheduling for Distributed System.- Chapter 9 Summary and Perspectives.

Quan Chen is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. Before joining the SJTU, he pursued his post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan's Department of Computer Science, Ann Arbor, USA from 2014 to 2016. He received his MS degree in 2009 and his PhD degree in 2014, both from the SJTU. During his PhD, he was a research associate at the Department of Computer Science of Columbia University, USA from 2013 to 2014. From 2010 to 2011, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests include high-performance computing, task scheduling for various architectures, and resource management in datacenters, runtime systems and operating systems. His dissertation was honored with the Shanghai Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award and the China Computer Federation (CCF) Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Minyi Guo is a Zhiyuan Chair Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. He is also the director of the SJTU's Embedded and Pervasive Computing Center. He received his BS and ME degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China in 1982 and 1986, respectively. From 1986 to 1994, he served as an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University. He received his PhD degree in Information Science from the University of Tsukuba, Japan in 1998. His research interests include parallel and distributed processing, parallelizing compilers, cloud computing, pervasive computing, software engineering, embedded systems, green computing, and wireless sensor networks. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST).