US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Optimizing job preemption using dynamic and static information" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,219, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing job preemption using dynamic and static information" was invented by Abhishek Malvankar (White Plains, N.Y.), Lior Aronovich (Thornhill, Canada), Alaa S. Youssef (Valhalla, N.Y.) and Michael Spriggs (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for optimizing job preemption using a scheduling mechanism that considers dynamic and static information, a processor, responsive to a pending job being selected to be run, determines that no computing hosts within a computing cluster have available resources capable of ...