Patent ID: 7721290
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A job scheduling management method for managing schedules of jobs allocated to a plurality of computers connected through a network, comprising the steps of: monitoring a performance state of a resource of a computer, included in said plurality of computers, to which said jobs have been allocated, determining if said performance state meets a predetermined condition, if said performance state meets said predetermined condition, detecting a job, of said jobs allocated to said computer, that is uncompleted at a time when said predetermined condition is met; detecting a resource that is available to execute said detected uncompleted job based on second information concerning resources required for executing said detected uncompleted job, allocating said detected uncompleted job to said detected resource; managing information indicating correspondence between said job and a time when said job is to be finished and information indicating a tome passed in executing said job; and determining that said predetermined condition is not met and allocating the uncompleted job of said jobs allocated to said computer to another computer if said management computer predicts that said job is not finished in the time when said job is to be finished from the performance state of said computer that executes said job and said time required for executing said job.