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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2010
Colin Watson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Konstantinos Kollias, Stanford, CA (US);
Christopher J. Crall, Seattle, WA (US);
Sayantan Chakravorty, Redmond, WA (US);
Colin Watson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Konstantinos Kollias, Stanford, CA (US);
Christopher J. Crall, Seattle, WA (US);
Sayantan Chakravorty, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The scheduling of a processing job to be performed by at least a portion of a cluster of processing resources distributed across multiple machines. The processing job is associated with a certain entity having a certain amount of guaranteed processing resources on the cluster. If there are enough processing resources to perform the job, then the job may be initiated. On the other hand, if there are not enough processing resources to perform the job, and there are yet some remaining processing resources that are guaranteed to the certain entity, then one or more other jobs that are associated with other entities are at least partially preempted until there are enough processing resources to perform the processing job.