Determining and describing available resources and capabilities to match jobs to endpoints

• US 8,468,530 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2005
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fraenkel, Michael L., Nesbitt, Richard E., Peters, Brent A.
• Primary Examiner(s): TO, JENNIFER N
• Application Number:
  US10/907,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20060230405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,994 Days
• Field of Search: 718/105, 718102-104, 709201-203
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5055 considering software capabilities, i.e. software resources associated or available to the machine

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for determining and describing available resources and capabilities to match jobs to endpoints may include applying a set of rules to resource information to at least one of create new resource and attribute information and update existing resource and attribute information. The method may also include applying at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to match jobs to endpoints.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for determining and describing available resources and capabilities to match jobs to endpoints, comprising:

defining a set of rules, by a computer, to create new resources, augment existing resources, create new capabilities of resources, and create metrics based on a predetermined computing environment;

requesting the set of rules, by a monitoring agent running on the computer, applicable to a specific job based on resources and attributes currently monitored by the monitoring agent;

leveraging preferences through the set of rules to target at least one of a preferred scheduling environment and a group of endpoints;

applying the set of rules by the monitoring agent to resource information to at least one of create new resource and attribute information and update existing resource and attribute information;

transmitting at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to a job scheduler for applying the information to match the job to an endpoint; and

applying at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to match the job to the endpoint by the job scheduler.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising collecting the resource information to apply the set of rules.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein applying the set of rules comprises applying the rules to aggregate a plurality of endpoints of a scheduling cluster to look like a single endpoint to a meta-scheduler.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a meta-scheduler enables federation of heterogeneous computing environments and different scheduling clusters to manage scheduling of multiple resources distributed in the different scheduling clusters.

5. A system for determining and describing available resources and capabilities to match jobs to endpoints, comprising:

a plurality of scheduling clusters, each scheduling cluster comprising;

a plurality of different computing environments, wherein each computing environment comprises;

a computer;

a policy database residing on the computer, the policy database storing a set of rules to create new resources, augment existing resources, create new capabilities of resources, and create metrics based on the plurality of computing environments;

a monitoring agent running on the computer to request the set of rules applicable to a specific job based on resources and attributes currently monitored by the monitoring agent, the monitoring agent being adapted to apply the requested set of rules to resource information to at least one of create new resource and attribute information and update existing resource and attribute information, and to leverage preferences through the set of rules to target at least one of a preferred scheduling environment and a group of endpoints; and

a job scheduler connected to each of the plurality of different computing environments to control matching and allocating of each of the different computing environments to a respective job based on the set of rules received from each monitoring agent, the job scheduler being adapted to apply at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to match jobs to endpoints or computing environments.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the monitoring agent is configured to collect resource information and to apply the set of rules applicable to the specific job to the collected resource information to create at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the monitoring agent transmits at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated resource and attribute information to the job scheduler.

8. A computer program product for determining and describing available resources and capabilities to match jobs to endpoints, the computer program product comprising:

a nontransitory computer usable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer usable storage medium comprising;

computer readable program code configured to define a set of rules, by a computer, to create new resources, augment existing resources, create new capabilities of resources, and create metrics based on a predetermined computing environment;

computer readable program code configured to request a set of rules, by a monitoring agent running on a computer, applicable to a specific job based on resources and attributes currently monitored by the monitoring agent;

computer readable program code configured to leverage preferences through the set of rules to target at least one of a preferred scheduling environment and a group of endpoints;

computer readable program code configured to apply the set of rules, by a monitoring agent, to resource information to at least one of create new resource and attribute information and update existing resource and attribute information, wherein the monitoring agent is directly connected to the resources currently monitored by the monitoring agent;

computer readable program code configured to transmit at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to a job scheduler for applying the information to match the job to an endpoint; and

computer readable program code configured to apply at least one of the new resource and attribute information and the updated existing resource and attribute information to match the job to the endpoint by the job scheduler.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising computer readable program code configured to collect the resource information to apply the set of rules.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising computer readable program code configured to apply the rules to aggregate a plurality of endpoints of a scheduling cluster to look like a single endpoint to a meta-scheduler.