Patent ID: 7975270
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating allocation of resources in a heterogeneous computing environment comprising a plurality of nodes, said method comprising: obtaining, by a resource manager executing on a processor of the heterogeneous computing environment, one or more attributes of at least one node of the plurality of nodes of the heterogeneous computing environment, the at least one node having a native architecture and supporting one or more non-native architectures, and wherein the one or more attributes specify the one or more non-native architectures supported by the at least one node, said one or more non-native architectures being different than said native architecture; receiving by the resource manager a request to be processed by the heterogeneous computing environment, said request having specific resource requirements associated therewith; selecting by the resource manager at least one processing node of the plurality of nodes to process the request, the selecting comprising: allocating one or more resources of the at least one processing node to the specific request to process the specific request.