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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2016
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Shenghua Wan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Prijith Chandran, San Jose, CA (US);
Varun Srivastava, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
WAL-MART STORES, INC., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A system and method for adaptive determination of computing resources is presented. Sometimes, computing jobs are to be allocated among a set of computers. Historical information regarding input data size and output data size is retrieved. Capacity information about each machine is retrieved. A weighted function is used to calculate a desired allocation of computing resources based on historical input data size and output data size. Computing resources are allocated based on the calculated allocation. The computing job can be performed on the allocated computing resources. Other embodiments also are disclosed.