Scheduling workloads and making provision decisions of computer resources in a computing environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9396028
APP PUB NO 20150143382A1
SERIAL NO

14150877

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Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for workload scheduling and resource provisioning. In one embodiment, in accordance with the present invention, the computer implemented method includes the steps of scheduling a set of pending workloads for execution on computer resources in a computing environment; identifying a workload in the set of pending workloads that is scheduled to utilize hypothetic resources, wherein hypothetic resources are idle computer resources that are currently not available, but can be made available to execute workloads through provisioning actions; holding the identified workload from dispatch to hypothetic resources for a holding period, wherein the holding period is a customizable duration of time; provisioning the hypothetic resources corresponding to computer resource requirements of the identified workload; determining whether the provisioned hypothetic resources have become available during the holding period.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chen, Chong Richmond Hill, CA 92 634
Hu, Zhenhua Toront, CA 59 439
Kang, Daesuk Mississauga, CA 9 31
Wang, Qi Markham, CA 695 4636

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