Patent ID: 11886915
Assignee: III HOLDINGS 12, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 24:
25. A method of configuring at least a portion of a multi-node compute environment, the method comprising:
generating, by at least one computer processor, a system job in the multi-node compute environment, the system job comprising a rolling maintenance task which configures at least one aspect of the compute environment for subsequent utilization of the compute environment by one or more compute jobs without the system job executing any workload associated with the one or more computes jobs;
performing, by the at least one computer processor, the configuration of the at least one aspect of the compute environment by processing the system job, the processing the system job comprising processing the system job on a none-by-node basis in order to effect at least one of a software update or operating system configuration process on a plurality of the nodes of the multi-node compute environment, the processing of the system job on the node-by node basis comprising processing each of the plurality of nodes independent from one another;
determining, by the at least one computer processor, a completion status of the performing the configuration; and
based at least on the determining the completion status, either (i) causing at least one node of the plurality of nodes to become available for the utilization by the one or more compute jobs; or (ii) causing sequestration or reservation of at least one node of the plurality of nodes so that the at least one node is not available for further utilization by compute jobs.