Patent ID: 8782231

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request to integrate a remote compute environment into a local compute environment, wherein a specification of compute resources associated with the request is one of fully explicit, partially explicit, fully implicit based on workload, and based on a virtual private cluster package concept where a virtual private cluster package can include aspects of provisioning a support environment and adjustments to resource request timeframes including pre-allocation, allocation duration, and post-allocation timeframe adjustments, wherein the remote compute environment comprises a plurality of networked compute nodes under common management and the local compute environment comprises a plurality of networked compute nodes under common management that is separate from the common management of the remote compute environment, wherein the remote compute environment and the local compute environment are configured to receive and process user-submitted workload, and wherein the compute resources comprise at least one of a server, memory, network bandwidth, a processor, and a virtual compute resource; in response to the request, automatically integrating local compute environment information with remote compute environment information to make available resources from the remote compute environment to requestors of resources in the local compute environment under the local compute environment requirements; and receiving a transfer of user-submitted workload at the remote compute environment from the local compute environment to yield transferred workload, such that policies, classes, qualities of service and resource limits associated with the local compute environment information are maintained for the transferred workload, wherein the user-submitted workload was submitted by a requestor to the local compute environment for processing.