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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 13, 2005
Applicant:
Lev Markov, Burlington, MA (US);
Inventor:
Lev Markov, Burlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for scheduling jobs in a computing system accounts provides for current and future scheduling according to job priority, and system resources expected to be available during a given time period. Resources may be freed by preempting jobs scheduled to execute according to preemption rules specified for the system. Advance reservation and backfilling are accomplished, maximizing system efficiency.