Patent ID: 7331048

Claim:
A method of facilitating backfill scheduling of applications of a computing environment, said method comprising: determining on which computing unit of a plurality of computing units of the computing environment an application is to be scheduled to execute, the application having an amount of data associated therewith, said determining being based, at least in part, on the amount of data of associated with the application; backfill scheduling the application for execution, in response to the determining; wherein the plurality of computing units comprise a local unit and a remote unit; wherein the determining comprises considering an estimated amount of time it would take to transfer the data to the remote unit and determining whether the application is to be scheduled on the local unit or the remote unit; and applying an adjustment to the estimated amount of time considered to provide an adjusted amount of time, and wherein the determining comprises considering the adjusted amount of time, wherein the adjust amount of time is the estimated amount of time plus a percentage of the estimated amount of time.