This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP'99, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April 1999, as a satelite meeting of IPPS/SPDP'99.The 12 revised full papers have been through an iterated reviewing process and present the state of the art in the area.

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Scheduling for Parallel Supercomputing: A Historical Perspective of Achievable Utilization.- On the Design and Evaluation of Job Scheduling Algorithms.- Comparing Logs and Models of Parallel Workloads Using the Co-plot Method.- Benchmarks and Standards for the Evaluation of Parallel Job Schedulers.- The Effect of Correlating Quantum Allocation and Job Size for Gang Scheduling.- Scheduling on AP/Linux for Fine and Coarse Grain Parallel Processes.- Job Re-packing for Enhancing the Performance of Gang Scheduling.- Process Tracking for Parallel Job Control.- The Legion Resource Management System.- Scheduling a Metacomputer with Uncooperative Sub-schedulers.- Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance.- Deterministic Batch Scheduling without Static Partitioning.