METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING CANDIDATE PROCESSING NODES IN A STREAM-ORIENTED COMPUTER SYSTEM

摘要

A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria.