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COMPUTING SESSION WORKLOAD SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT OF PARENT-CHILD TASKS

  • US 20150143381A1
  • Filed: 11/20/2013
  • Published: 05/21/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for parent-child scheduling and management of a computer workload, the method comprising:

  • scheduling, by a single workload scheduler, a parent task of a parent-child workload submitted by a client application, on a resource available to the single workload scheduler, wherein the single workload scheduler controls the scheduling on the resource available to the single workload scheduler;

    receiving, by the single workload scheduler, a request to schedule a child task of the parent task of the parent-child workload, wherein the parent task of the parent-child workload is dependent on a result of the child task;

    receiving, by the single workload scheduler, a message from the parent task of the parent-child workload yielding the resource to the single workload scheduler;

    receiving by the single workload scheduler, a resume request from the parent task; and

    returning, by the single workload scheduler, the resource yielded by the parent task to the parent task.

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