Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yahoo! Inc.

Deyang Song

Sung Ho Park

Aamod Sane

Yifung Lin

Jimmy Duvall

David Jackson

Ashish Kasi

Chandra Pisupati

Con Lam

Michael Furman

Junxu Li

Ali Mohamed

Sheridan Rawlins

Timothy Reeth

Boris Shkolnik

Simulation of a computational job using various sets of resources, and potentially also the automated or semi-automated allocation of an appropriate set of resources for accomplishing a computational job comprising multiple vertices. For each of multiple potential sets of resources, a simulation module simulates processing of the computational job. While the simulation does not actually perform the vertex on each processing node, the simulation does use dependencies between vertices, and historical data regarding the processing of instances of such vertices, in order to determine the efficacy of processing of each vertex, and to put the estimations together into an overall simulation result.

Modeling resource usage for a job

Modification of the presentation of page appearance, page navigation flow, and other aspects of the user experience of an online shopper navigating the virtual shopping cart and checkout pages of an online store is achieved without compromising the security of checkout processing. The modification may include customization, and various configuration and customization tools may be employed. The online shopper experiences continuity between unsecured-connection pages presenting items for purchase and secured-connection pages presented for checkout processing. In one embodiment, page navigation flow is modified using continuations implemented using a relatively small stack to save information relating to the flow. In another embodiment, a page designer enables a dynamic version of a page specification program to be generated, such as by way of a page customization interface. Partial evaluation is employed to generate a version of the program that is executed at request time.

Customization of an online shopping experience

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