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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2018
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
John Michael Kichak, Raleigh, NC (US);
Edward L. Rowe, Cary, NC (US);
James Edward Georges, Irvine, CA (US);
Daniel Thomas Kelly, Raleigh, NC (US);
Glenn Daniel Sidle, Raleigh, NC (US);
Charles Michael Cavalier, Apex, NC (US);
SAS INSTITUTE INC., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for job flow processing, such as by ordering the performance of parallel tasks in a job flow to minimize a makespan for the job flow, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to ordering the performance of tasks in a job flow based on computation of one or more independent and dependent metrics for tasks in a job flow. In many embodiments, tasks along a critical path of a job flow may be identified and prioritized using the one or more metrics computed for tasks in the job flow. For example, computing a time remaining until end and/or a longest path to end for each task in a job flow may enable a listing of tasks in the job flow to be ordered in a manner that prioritizes tasks to optimize the makespan for the job flow to be executed.