Patent ID: 7426729

Claim:
A processing system, comprising: a master system including a graphical user interface, a service component and a system controller component, the master system configured to execute the service component and the system controller component, the service component including a look up service; and a processing resource configured to register with the look up service for a specific period of time, the registering being configured to advertise an eligibility of the processing resource to execute a software processing job having a set of requirements, the processing resource configured to be removed from the look up service upon completion of the software processing job so as to indicate availability of the processing resource to execute a second processing job having a set of matching requirements, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to provide information regarding status of a software processing job scheduler and the status of the processing resource, the graphical user interface also enabling initiation and removal of software processing jobs from the software processing job scheduler, the system controller component is configured to manage the executing of the software processing job, the system controller component further configured to search the look up service of the service component to locate the processing resource having a set of attributes matching the set of requirements of the software processing job.