Patent ID: 9298514
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: establishing a standing reservation via a workload manager for compute resources within a compute environment, wherein the standing reservation is periodic and comprises a first reservation of a group of compute resources at a first time to yield a first group of reserved compute resources and a second reservation of the group of compute resources at a second time to yield a second group of reserved compute resources; receiving a request for compute resources to process workload in the standing reservation; receiving, with the request, an optimization request for the workload, wherein the optimization request causes the workload manager to analyze the compute environment for opportunities to modify, prior to the compute environment processing the workload, one of the first group of reserved compute resources and the second group of reserved compute resources in terms of one of space or time to improve performance of the compute environment when the compute environment processes the workload relative to a configuration of the compute environment under the standing reservation at a time the request for compute resources was received; modifying, via virtual partitioning, one of the first group of reserved compute resources and the second group of reserved compute resources according to the optimization request to yield a modified group of compute resources; and inserting the workload into the modified group of compute resources for processing.