Patent ID: 8819119

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising: one or more instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive information associated with a cluster configuration, the cluster configuration being part of a plurality of cluster configurations; store the information associated with the cluster configuration; receive a request to create an alias associated with the information associated with the cluster configuration, the alias including information referring to the information associated with the cluster configuration; create, based on the received request, the alias; associate the created alias with the information associated with the cluster configuration; receive, using the created alias, an instruction to combine the cluster configuration with at least one of: one or more job configurations, or one or more task configurations; combine, based on receiving the instruction, the cluster configuration and the at least one of the one or more job configurations or the one or more task configurations to create a combined configuration; store information associating the created alias with information associated with the combined configuration; and cause, based on the stored information associated with the cluster configuration and the stored information associating the created alias with the information associated with the combined configuration, at least one of a task or a job to be processed, the at least one of the task or the job being processed based on receiving notation information, the notation information referring to the combined configuration, and the at least one of the task or the job being processed based on information associated with the combined configuration.