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term: cluster
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  We have clustered scheduling in case the set of processors of a system is
  partitioned into non-empty pairwise disjoint subsets.  These subsets are
  called clusters.  Clusters with a cardinality of one are partitions.
  Each cluster is owned by exactly one scheduler instance.
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