Automated workflow selection

US10733026B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• John Richard Reysa · Austin, US
• Bryan Hunt · Spokane, US
• Stephen McCants · Austin, US
• Tierney Bruce McCaughrin · Georgetown, US
• Brian L. Kozitza · Georgetown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 27, 2018
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/4843
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A job submission technique includes a set of algorithms that provide automated workload selection to a batch processing system that has the ability to receive and run jobs on various computing resources simultaneously. The job submission technique provides for organizing workloads, assigning relative ratios between workloads, associating arbitrary workload validation algorithms with a workload or parent workload, associating arbitrary selection algorithms with a workload or workload group, defining high priority workloads that preserve fairness, and balancing the workload selection based on a current status of the batch system, validation status, and the workload ratios.