Patent ID: 8874638

Claim:
A computer program product for facilitating processing of jobs in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: determining, by a client processor, whether a compute token obtained by the client processor specifies a computing unit to be used by the client processor to submit a job, the compute token obtained by the client processor from a server processor coupled to the client processor and distinct from the computing unit, and the determining comprising checking an identifier field of the compute token to determine whether the computing unit is included in the identifier field; based on determining that the compute token specifies the computing unit, forwarding by the client processor at least a portion of the job to the computing unit to perform analytics processing for the job; and providing, by the client processor to the server processor, an indication that analytics processing for the job has been requested by the client processor.