System and method of using transaction IDS for managing reservations of compute resources within a compute environment

• US 8,984,524 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. (Ala Services LLC)
• Inventors: Jackson, David Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Meng
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE, TAMMY EUNHYE
• Application Number:
  US13/686,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5014 Reservation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/504 Resource capping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5022 Mechanisms to release resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A system and method for reserving resources within a compute environment such as a cluster or grid are disclosed. The method aspect of the disclosure includes receiving a request for resource availability in a compute environment from a requestor, associating a transaction identification with the request and resources within the compute environment that can meet the request and presenting the transaction identification to the requestor. The transaction ID can also be associated with a time frame in which resources are available and can also be associated with modifications to the resources and supersets of resources that could be drawn upon to meet the request. The transaction ID can also be associated with metrics that identify how well the resource fit with the request and modifications that can make the resources better match the workload which would be submitted under the request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request for compute resource availability in a multi-node compute environment managed by a common workload manager, wherein the common workload manager reserves resources for consumption at a second time that is later than the first time;

associating, via a processor, no more than one transaction identification with the request and with available resources comprising at least one node in the multi-node compute environment for consumption;

presenting the transaction identification, wherein associating the transaction identification and presenting the transaction identification occur prior to reserving available resources associated with the request;

receiving instructions to modify at least one resource of the available resources;

changing an operating system on a node of the available resources based on the instructions; and

reserving the available resources to yield reserved compute resources and automatically loading software on the reserved resources within the multi-node compute environment.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting information associated with the available resources further comprises presenting information associated with probabilities of availability associated with the available resources.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising, after presenting the information and presenting associated transaction identification:

receiving instructions from the requestor to commit the request for the available resources.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein receiving instructions to commit the request for available resources is accomplished with reference to the transaction identification.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the presented information further comprises at least one time period in which the available resources can meet the request.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the transaction identification is associated with both the available resources and the at least one time period in which the available resources can meet the request.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving instructions to commit the request for the available resources further comprises receiving instructions to reserve the available resources for the at least one time period at which the available resources can meet the request.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein presenting information associated with the available resources that can meet the request further comprises presenting information associated with modified resources that, if so modified, can meet the request in a given time frame.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the transaction identification reflects a potential configuration of the available resources.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting an option to modify the available resources.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving instructions to modify at least one resource further comprises receiving instructions to modify at least one of the following parameters associated with a reservation of the available resources associated with the transaction identification:

disk space, processor speed, number of nodes reserved, memory allocation, bandwidth and licenses.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving instructions to modify at least one resource further comprises receiving instructions to perform a provisioning of resources.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the transaction identification is associated with a metric which relates to how closely the available resources match the request.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the metric relates to at least one of:

response time, overhead required to modify resources, and ownership of resources.

15. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium storing instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request for resource availability in a multi-node compute environment managed by a common workload manager, wherein the common workload manager reserves resources at a first time for consumption at a second time that is later than the first time;

associating, via a processor, no more than one transaction identification with the request-and with available resources comprising at least one node in the multi-node compute environment for consumption;

analyzing the available resources in the multi-node compute environment and identifying a time frame when the available resources are available to meet the request, wherein;

comparing potential modifications of the available resources in the multi-node compute environment to a modification threshold; and

if no modifications of the available resources are necessary according to the comparison with the modification threshold, then associating the transaction identification with the available resources at the time frame; and

if modifications to the available resources are necessary according to the comparison with the modification threshold, then associating the transaction identification with the available resources as modified and the time frame;

presenting the transaction identification, wherein associating the transaction identification and presenting the transaction identification occur prior to reserving available resources associated with the request; and

reserving the available resources to yield reserved resources and automatically loading software on the reserved resources within the multi-node compute environment.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for resource availability in a multi-node compute environment managed by a common workload manager, wherein the common workload manager reserves resources at a first time for consumption at a second time that is later than the first time;

associating, via a processor, no more than one transaction identification with the request and with available resources comprising at least one node in the multi-node compute environment for consumption;

analyzing the available resources in the multi-node compute environment and identifying a time frame when the available resources are available to meet the request, wherein;

comparing potential modifications of the available resources in the multi-node compute environment to a modification threshold; and

if no modifications of the available resources are necessary according to the comparison with the modification threshold, then associating the transaction identification with the available resources at the time frame; and

if modifications to the available resources are necessary according to the comparison with the modification threshold, then associating the transaction identification with the available resources as modified and the time frame;

presenting the transaction identification, wherein associating the transaction identification and presenting the transaction identification occur prior to reserving available resources associated with the request; and

reserving the available resources to yield reserved resources and automatically loading software on the reserved resources within the multi-node compute environment.