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US8135841B2 - Method and system for maintaining a grid computing environment having hierarchical relations - Google Patents
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11. The system of claim 8, wherein each of the service configured to run on the two or more computers manages the one or more computational resources by performing at least one of locating, reserving, allocating, monitoring, or deallocating the one or more computational resources.
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