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Planned cloud resource management

  • US 10,606,660 B1
  • Filed: 05/01/2017
  • Issued: 03/31/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of managing hardware resources of a plurality of client nodes, the method comprising:

  • providing a plan that indicates when to execute a plurality of applications;

    identifying one or more concurrent applications which are one or more of the plurality of applications that are scheduled to execute concurrently according to the plan;

    generating a plurality of hypothetical execution assignments of the one or more concurrent applications to the plurality of client nodes;

    prior to executing at least one of the plurality of hypothetical execution assignments, evaluating the hypothetical execution assignments with a utility function that factors in aspects of each of the one or more concurrent applications and the hardware resources of the plurality of client nodes from a plurality of different profiles, wherein each execution assignment assigns a particular application of the one or more concurrent applications to a particular client node or particular type of client node from the plurality of client nodes; and

    instructing respective client nodes of the plurality of client nodes to execute respective applications based on the utility function.

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