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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2010
Arun Kwangil Iyengar, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hongbo Jiang, Wuhan, CN;
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Wolfgang Segmuller, Valhalla, NY (US);
Asser Nasreldin Tantawi, Somers, NY (US);
Charles P. Wright, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Arun Kwangil Iyengar, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hongbo Jiang, Wuhan, CN;
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Wolfgang Segmuller, Valhalla, NY (US);
Asser Nasreldin Tantawi, Somers, NY (US);
Charles P. Wright, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a computer system comprising a plurality of computing devices wherein the plurality of computing devices processes a plurality of tasks and each task has a task type, a method for determining overheads associated with task types comprises the following steps. Overheads are estimated for a plurality of task types. One of the plurality of computing devices is selected to execute one of the plurality of tasks, wherein the selection comprises estimating load on at least a portion of the plurality of computing devices from tasks assigned to at least a portion of the plurality of computing devices and the estimates of overheads of the plurality of task types. One or more of the estimates of overheads of the plurality of task types are varied.