Patent Document ID: 9268615
Application ID: 12790105

Base Claim:
1. A method at an entity in a distributed computing system comprising: providing an input arranged to connect to the distributed computing system and access a distributed computing graph associated with an activity to be carried out in the distributed computing system, the distributed computing graph representing currently executing processes in the distributed computing system; arranging a processor to provide a dynamic mapping between the distributed computing graph and a data structure at the entity holding a graph layout view of the distributed computing graph such that changes in the graph layout view are reflected in the distributed computing graph; receiving user input adding a first community in the graph layout view the first community comprising computing resources in the distributed computing system; receiving user input placing a first graphical element in the first community, the first graphical element representing at least a first one of the currently executing processes; using the processor to update the distributed computing graph such that the first currently executing process runs on computing resources of the first community; receiving user input placing a second graphical element outside all communities displayed on the graph layout view, the second graphical element representing at least a second one of the currently executing processes; and using the processor to update the distributed computing graph such that the second currently executing process represented by the second graphical element runs on computing resources of a local machine.

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Claim 6:
6. A method as claimed in claim 1 which comprises storing parameters for a community the parameters specifying conditions to be met by computing resources in the community.