Patent ID: 8037475
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of managing provisioning resources in a compute environment, the method comprising: analyzing a queue of jobs at a current time to determine an availability of compute resources within the compute environment for each job based on a reservation of compute resources established for each job to yield reserved compute resources, the each job to consume the reserved compute resources at a future time, which is later than the current time, to yield an analysis; based on the analysis, determining an ability of the compute environment to satisfy all service level agreements that identify promised service levels to users of the compute environment and target service levels within a current configuration of the compute environment; determining possible resource provisioning changes in the compute environment to improve service level fulfillment for jobs to be processed in the compute environment; determining a cost of the possible resource provisioning changes; and if the possible resource provisioning changes improve overall delivery of service levels within the compute environment based on the cost, then provisioning at least one compute resource in the compute environment prior to all the jobs consuming compute resources in the compute environment and according to a generated schedule of times.