Patent ID: 8185905

Claim:
A method, comprising: reading, by a computational device, a first indicator that indicates recommended resource requirements for an application, wherein the recommended resource requirements indicate at least a recommended fraction of a processing power of a processing entity and a recommended fraction of a memory of the processing entity; reading, by the computational device, a second indicator that indicates permissible flexibilities in the recommended resource requirements for the application, wherein a permissible flexibility in the recommended fraction of the memory of the processing entity is greater than a permissible flexibility in the recommended fraction of the processing power of the processing entity, wherein the second indicator is selected from a group of indicators and different indicators of the group of indicators are associated with different levels of flexibilities in the recommended resource requirements for the application, and wherein: prior to the reading of the first indicator and the second indicator the computational device receives an assignment of values for the first and the second indicators from an administrator; and the assignment of the values causes the second indicator to indicate that the application is executable with at least a predetermined fraction of the recommended resource requirement for the application that is indicated by the first indicator; and allocating, by the computational device, the application to a processing entity of a plurality of processing entities based on the assignment of the values for the first and the second indicators received from the administrator.