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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hani Talal Jamjoom, Cos Cob, CT (US);
Dinesh Kumar, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Zon-Yin Shae, Salem, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Accepting a job having a job size representing a number or quantity of processors; computing an expected size, and a standard deviation in size, for the accepted job; adding the expected size to the standard deviation in size to determine a sum; comparing the sum to a number or quantity of available clusters at each of a plurality of non-leaf nodes of a tree representing a high-performance computing environment; and when the number or quantity of available clusters is more than the sum at a sub-tree of the tree and, going down one level further in the sub-tree, the number of available clusters is less than the sum, selecting the sub-tree for the accepted job such that the accepted job is placed on one or more clusters associated with the selected sub-tree.