Patent ID: 9602423
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A non-virtual computer cluster system, the system comprising: a management computing device comprising one or more processors executing instructions stored in an electronic non-transitory storage medium to provide a supervisor controller configured to coordinate processing of a plurality of sub-jobs for a plurality of overall jobs, wherein the supervisor controller is provided on the management computing device; a plurality of physical computer system nodes in the computer cluster configured to communicate with the supervisor controller and to perform processing of received sub-jobs, the computer system nodes each comprising: wherein the management computing device is a separate computing device from the plurality of physical computer system nodes, and wherein the supervisor controller is configured to, based on goals specified by an operator of the computer cluster and the substantially real-time reporting from a plurality of agent controllers, determine assignment of system resource allocations for each sub-job on those nodes such that the operator-specified goals are satisfied and processing capabilities of the computer cluster are substantially utilized.