Mechanism for managing execution environments for aggregated...

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2007-11-20

2007-11-20

Bullock, Jr., Lewis A. (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C709S201000, C718S104000, C718S106000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10251019

ABSTRACT:
Workspace definitions, which define an execution environment, can be associated with jobs. A work request is processed to automatically determine that tasks that are progeny of a given job inherit the association with the workspace definition, and therefore, that the tasks should be executed using the execution environment defined in the workspace definition. However, different execution environments can be defined for progeny of a given parent job, essentially overriding the inheritance from the parent job. According to an embodiment, a set of resources associated with an execution environment is configured such that the resources are accessible by two or more computers of a group of networked computers, such as a server farm, without requiring configuring duplicate sets of the resources. Furthermore, in a server farm computing environment, an execution environment associated with one or more jobs is not reliant on being created on any given computer of the server farm.

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