System and method for providing threshold-based access to compute resources

• US 9,135,066 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• 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): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sanders, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US13/758,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20130145029A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 726/2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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

The invention relates to systems, methods and computer-readable media for controlling access to compute resources in a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. The method of providing conditional access to a compute environment comprises associating a required service level threshold with a compute environment, associating a service level with a requestor, receiving a request for access to the compute environment from the requestor; and, if the service level of the requestor meets the specified service level threshold, then allowing access to the compute resources. The threshold-based access may be enforced by reservations, policies or some other method.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

associating a requestor service level with a requestor, the requestor being separate from a compute environment and the requestor service level being a service level required by the requestor when requesting resources in the compute environment;

receiving a request associated with the requestor for access to the compute environment;

upon determining that the requestor service level meets a second service level, allowing the requestor access to the compute environment, wherein the second service level is a service level offered by the compute environment; and

upon determining that the requestor service level does not meet the second service level, denying the requestor access to the compute environment.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling access to a compute resource within the compute environment for a specified timeframe, wherein the access to the compute resource is dependent on the requestor service level satisfying the second service level.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second service level is associated with a timeframe through a use of a resource reservation and a resource reservation access control list.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second service level is associated with at least one of a job and a credential.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second service level relates to at least one of a current estimated queue time, current realized queue time, estimated minimum expansion factor, realized minimum expansion factor, estimated job throughput and realized job throughput.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the second service level relates to at least one of a parameter that is met and a parameter that is exceeded.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second service level relates to fairshare usage of compute resources.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the second service level relates to responsiveness for the credential.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the fairshare usage relates to one of short term historical information and long term historical information.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the second service level further relates to current compute resource utilization.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second service level further relates to current utilization associated with at least one of:

active jobs, allocated nodes, allocated processors, allocated processor seconds, bandwidth usage, licensing usage and disk storage usage.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second service level is associated with a usage parameter.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the second service level is further associated with an average of resource usage.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the average of the resource usage is associated with current job usage.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request for access to the compute environment from the requestor further comprises receiving a service request.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the service request is for at least one of:

provisioning services, job migration services, data migration services, reservation creation, priority adjustment, policy exemption, limit exemption, preemption services, and access to other multi-node compute environment services.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the other multi-node computer environment services comprise services provided by at least one of a database, a web server and an application server.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the service request is related to a credential.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the credential is at least one of:

a home cluster, a user, a group, an account, a class, a queue, a quality of service, and a service level agreement.

20. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

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

associating a requestor service level with a requestor, the requestor being separate from a compute environment and the requestor service level being a service level required by the requestor when requesting resources in the compute environment;

receiving a request associated with the requestor for access to the compute environment;

upon determining that the requestor service level meets a second service level, allowing the requestor access to the compute environment, wherein the second service level is a service level offered by the compute environment; and

upon determining that the requestor service level does not meet the second service level, denying the requestor access to the compute environment.