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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2005
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Yunhong Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Terence P. Kelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Yunhong Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Terence P. Kelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method of scheduling computer processing begins with a first step of receiving job properties for a plurality of jobs to be processed in a multi-processor computing environment. At least some of the jobs each comprise a plurality of stages, one or more tasks for each stage, and precedence constraints among the stages. The method continues with a second step of determining a schedule for processing at least a subset of the plurality of jobs on processors within the multi-processor computing environment from a solution of a mathematical program that provides a near maximal completion reward. The schedule comprises a sequence of tasks for each processor. In a third step, the computer processing jobs are processed on the processors according to the sequence of tasks for each processor.