Dynamically building application environments in a computational grid

摘要

Computing environments within a grid computing system are dynamically built in response to specific job resource requirements from a grid resource allocator, including activating needed hardware, provisioning operating systems, application programs, and software drivers. Optimally, prior to building a computing environment for a particular job, cost/revenue analysis is performed, and if operational objectives would not be met by building the environment and executing the job, a job sell-off process is initiated.

主权项

1. A grid management system comprising:
a computer processor; a storage memory communicably disposed to the computer processor; and program instructions embodied by the storage memory to cause the computer processor to perform steps comprising:
determining, in advance of executing a computing job, whether an available underutilized computer resource in a first computing grid would meet cost or performance criteria specified by a source of the computing job; andresponsive to determining that the cost or performance criteria specified by the source of the computing job would not be met by the available underutilized computer resource in the first computing grid:
preventing the first computing grid from executing the computing job; andselling-off the computing job to a second computing grid.