Eliminating execution of jobs-based operational costs of related reports

• US 9,811,382 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Fankhauser, Michael, Haber, Marc N., Halberstadt, Benjamin, Hecker, Roger K.
• Primary Examiner(s): PUENTE, EMERSON C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Zhi
• Application Number:
  US15/246,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20160357606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/254 Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations

Abstract

Optimizing operational costs in a computing environment includes identifying high-cost jobs that are executed to generate one or more reports in the computing environment, identifying one or more reports the generation of which is dependent on the execution of the high-cost jobs, and culling at least a first job from among the high-cost jobs, in response to determining that a benefit achieved from the reports that depend on the first job does not justify costs associated with generating the reports.

Claims

1. A method for optimizing operational costs in a computing environment, the method comprising:

identifying, via a computer processor, high-cost jobs from among a plurality of jobs that are executed by one or more computing device in the computing environment to generate one or more reports in the computing environment, the high-cost jobs determined as a function of resource usage of resources in the computing environment, wherein the resource usage comprises at least one of CPU usage, data storage usage, memory usage, and network bandwidth usage;

identifying, via the computer processor, one or more reports in the generation of which is dependent on the execution of the high-cost jobs; and

culling, via the computer processor, at least a first job from among the high-cost jobs identified, in response to determining that a benefit achieved from the reports that depend on the first job does not justify costs associated with generating the reports, wherein costs associated with a report are calculated based on aggregated cost of jobs on which the report depends, and

executing, via the computer processor, the high-cost jobs without the at least first job;

wherein the cost of the individual job is determined by;

if the job is not executing during the highest peak of resource usage, then its individual cost is zero;

if the job is executing during the highest peak of resource usage but is needed by other reports too, then its individual cost is zero; and

if the job is executing during the highest peak of resource usage and is needed only by a particular report, then the job cost is added to the report'"'"'s individual cost.