Job allocation program, method and apparatus

• US 20080148272A1
• Filed: 09/20/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yoshida, Taketoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,510,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration

Abstract

This job allocation method for allocating jobs to each computer that processes the job without intensively managing a load state of each computer includes: identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of each computer; identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of computers to the jobs in association with the job generation state; transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode; and when a job acquisition refusal notification is received in response to the job generation notification, resending a job generation notification to a computer having a configuration necessary for the generated job. Thus, by sending the job generation notification, not a job allocation notification, without intensively managing the load state of each computer, which processes the jobs, it is possible to reduce the processing load of a master computer.

Claims

1. A job allocation method for allocating jobs to each computer that processes jobs without intensively managing a load state of each said computer, said job allocation method comprising:

identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of each said computer;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of said computers to said job in association with a job generation state;

transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode; and

upon receipt of a job acquisition refusal notification as a response to said job generation notification, resending a job generation notification to another computer having a configuration necessary for said generated job.

2. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

upon receipt of a job acquisition notification as a response to said job generation notification, registering identification information of a transmission source computer of said job acquisition notification into a job allocation data storage in association with the generated job;

searching said job allocation data storage to extract a job to which a processing result is not registered;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a job generation state at the extraction by using said allocation mode data storage;

if the identified job allocation mode allows duplicate allocation of said computers to said job to which said processing result is not registered, transmitting a job generation notification to a computer having capability higher than capability of said computer that currently processes said job to which said processing result is not registered, and having a configuration necessary for a processing of said job to which said processing result is not registered.

3. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said data concerning said job allocation mode comprises data representing prohibition of allocation of a plurality of computers to the same job when a number of jobs is equal to or greater than a number of computers, and representing allowance of said allocation of said plurality of computer to the same job when said number of jobs is less than said number of computers.

4. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said resending comprises, when said job allocation mode represents that one computer is allocated to the generated job, carrying out said transmitting and subsequent processings or carrying out said identifying said computers and subsequent processings when said job acquisition refusal notification is received from all of the identified computers.

5. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said resending comprises, when said job allocation mode represents that the generated job is allocated to a plurality of computers, carrying out said identifying the computers and subsequent processings when said job acquisition refusal notification is received from all of the identified computers.

6. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

judging whether or not priority of the generated job is higher than a predetermined reference; and

if said priority of the generated job is higher than said predetermined reference, transmitting said job generation notification to a plurality of identified computers regardless of said job allocation mode.

7. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said identifying said computers comprises:

judging whether or not a number of executions of an application used by the generated job is less than a total number of licenses;

if it is judged that said number of executions of said application used by the generated job is less than said total number of licenses, identifying computers to which said application is installed and which has other configuration necessary for said processing of the generated job.

8. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein, if the generated job is a majority-decision type job to which a number of calculations is designated, each said calculation is handled as one job.

9. The job allocation method as set forth in claim 1, wherein, if the generated job is a majority-decision type job to which a number of calculations is not designated, said job generation notification is transmitted to a predetermined number of identified computers regardless of the identified job allocation mode.

10. A job allocation method for allocating jobs to each computer that processes jobs without intensively managing a load state of each said computer, said job allocation method comprising:

identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data concerning a configuration of each said computer;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of said computers to said job in association with a job generation state;

transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode;

upon receipt of a job acquisition notification as a response to said job generation notification, registering identification information of a transmission source computer of said job acquisition notification in association with the generated job in a job allocation data storage;

searching said job allocation data storage to extract a job to which a processing result is not registered;

identifying a job allocation mode according to said job generation state at the extraction by using said allocation mode data storage;

if the identified job allocation mode allows duplicate allocation of a computer to said job to which said processing result is not registered, transmitting said job generation notification to a computer having a configuration necessary for a processing of said job to which said processing result is not registered and having capability higher than capability of a computer, which currently processes said job to which said processing result is not registered.

11. A program embodied on a computer-readable medium, for causing a computer to allocate jobs to each computer that processes jobs without intensively managing a load state of each said computer, said program comprising:

identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of each said computer;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of said computers to said job in association with a job generation state;

transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode; and

upon receipt of a job acquisition refusal notification as a response to said job generation notification, resending a job generation notification to another computer having a configuration necessary for said generated job.

12. The program as set forth in claim 11, further comprising:

upon receipt of a job acquisition notification as a response to said job generation notification, registering identification information of a transmission source computer of said job acquisition notification into a job allocation data storage in association with the generated job;

searching said job allocation data storage to extract a job to which a processing result is not registered;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a job generation state at the extraction by using said allocation mode data storage;

if the identified job allocation mode allows duplicate allocation of said computers to said job to which said processing result is not registered, transmitting a job generation notification to a computer having capability higher than capability of said computer that currently processes said job to which said processing result is not registered, and having a configuration necessary for a processing of said job to which said processing result is not registered.

13. A program embodied on a medium, for causing a computer to allocate jobs to each computer that processes jobs without intensively managing a load state of each said computer, said program comprising:

identifying computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data concerning a configuration of each said computer;

identifying a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of said computers to said job in association with a job generation state;

transmitting a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode;

upon receipt of a job acquisition notification as a response to said job generation notification, registering identification information of a transmission source computer of said job acquisition notification in association with the generated job in a job allocation data storage;

searching said job allocation data storage to extract a job to which a processing result is not registered;

identifying a job allocation mode according to said job generation state at the extraction by using said allocation mode data storage;

if the identified job allocation mode allows duplicate allocation of a computer to said job to which said processing result is not registered, transmitting said job generation notification to a computer having a configuration necessary for a processing of said job to which said processing result is not registered and having capability higher than capability of a computer, which currently processes said job to which said processing result is not registered.

14. A job allocation apparatus for allocating jobs to each computer that processes jobs without intensively managing a load state of each said computer, said job allocation apparatus comprising:

a unit that identifies computers having a configuration necessary for a processing of a generated job by using a profile management data storage storing data of a configuration of each said computer;

a unit that identifies a job allocation mode according to a current job generation state by using an allocation mode data storage storing data concerning an allocation mode of said computers to said job in association with a job generation state;

a unit that transmits a job generation notification to at least one of the identified computers according to the identified job allocation mode; and

a unit that resends, upon receipt of a job acquisition refusal notification as a response to said job generation notification, a job generation notification to another computer having a configuration necessary for said generated job.

15. The job allocation apparatus as set forth in claim 14, further comprising:

a unit that registers, upon receipt of a job acquisition notification as a response to said job generation notification, identification information of a transmission source computer of said job acquisition notification into a job allocation data storage in association with the generated job;

a unit that searches said job allocation data storage to extract a job to which a processing result is not registered;

a unit that identifies a job allocation mode according to a job generation state at the extraction by using said allocation mode data storage;

a unit that transmits, if the identified job allocation mode allows duplicate allocation of said computers to said job to which said processing result is not registered, a job generation notification to a computer having capability higher than capability of said computer that currently processes said job to which said processing result is not registered, and having a configuration necessary for a processing of said job to which said processing result is not registered.