Before revision:  i.e., the job response time is the maximum of the response times of its tasks  , which is hard to analyze since these task response times are generally not independent.
After revision:  i.e., the job response time is the maximum of the response times of its tasks . Despite the wide attention this problem has received, tight analysis is still largely unknown since analyzing job delay requires characterizing the complicated correlation among task delays, which is hard to do. We first consider an asymptotic regime where the number of servers, n , which is hard to analyze since these task response times are generally not independent.