Patent ID: 8271807
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: G05D,G06F,G06Q,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving data about a current state of a compute environment, wherein the compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes under common management in which a workload manager schedules and distributes workload among the plurality of nodes and wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is an independent computer that is networked with other nodes of the plurality of nodes in the compute environment; analyzing the workload that is currently consuming resources in the plurality of nodes in the compute environment to yield an analysis; and modifying, based at least in part on the data and the analysis and in a manner related to energy consumption, use of at least one resource in the compute environment by migrating a reservation from a first group of compute resources in the compute environment to a second group of compute resources in the compute environment to yield a second reservation of the second group of resources.