Multithreading has become a dominant paradigm in general purpose MIMD parallel computation. To execute a multithreaded computation on a parallel computer, a scheduler must order and allocate threads to run on the individual processors. The scheduling algorithm dramatically affects both the speedup attained and the space used when executing the computation. We consider the problem of scheduling multithreaded computations to achieve linear speedup without using significantly more space-per-processor than required for a single-processor execution
