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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Applicant:
Antony Joel Messerli, San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventor:
Antony Joel Messerli, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cloud computing system including a computing device configured to run virtual machine instances is disclosed. The computing device includes a hypervisor program for managing the virtual machine instances. A customer virtual machine instance is run by the hypervisor program on the computing device, and a grid virtual machine instance is run by the hypervisor program on the computing device. The grid virtual machine instance is configured to run only when a resource of the computing device is not being utilized by the customer virtual machine instance.