Dynamic hybrid computing environment

A system comprising:

• a first server computer cluster upon which a plurality of virtual machines can be instantiated for form a first cluster;
• a second server computer cluster, each server computer of the second computer cluster including at least one hardware element having high-computing speed performance capabilities with regard to certain computing operations as compared to the same certain computing operations when performed by the servers of the first server cluster, upon which a plurality of virtual machines can be instantiated to form a second cluster;
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• a virtual network infrastructure interconnecting the first and second server clusters to provide a virtual computing environment and including a portal through which human and logical users interface with resources of and processes that execute within the virtual computing environment, the portal including instructions stored within a memory of one of the server computers of the first server cluster and executable on a processor thereof to perform data processing activities comprising:
• allocating computing resources of the first server cluster to instantiate the first cluster and to establish a computing session;
• initiating execution of a program within the first cluster that offloads at least one computing task to the second cluster, when the second cluster is instantiated, to leverage the high-computing speed performance capabilities of the second cluster with regard to the certain computing operations, the computing task offloaded to the second cluster including the first cluster copying of data from the first cluster to a distributed file system to allow virtual machines of the second cluster to create, read, update, and delete data therein such that data in the distributed file system is immediately available to virtual machines of both the first and second clusters;
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• upon completion of program execution, deallocating at least the second cluster.

A non-transitory computer readable medium with instructions stored thereon that are executable on at least one computing device to perform data processing activities comprising:

• receiving allocation input identifying virtual computing resources to be attached to a computing session, the computing resources including a first cluster of at least one virtual machine that operates on a first hardware-type and a second cluster of at least one virtual machine that executes on a second hardware-type;
• receiving secure connectivity input to enable virtual machines of both the first and second clusters to communicate data;
• allocating computing resources within a virtual computing environment to establish a computing session according to the allocation input and establishing secure connectivity between the allocated computing resources according to the secure connectivity input;
• initiating execution of a program within the first cluster that offloads at least one computing task to the second cluster to leverage a performance enhancing capability of the second hardware-type, the computing task offloaded to the second cluster including the first cluster copying of data from the first cluster to a distributed file system to allow virtual machines of the second cluster to create, read, update, and delete data therein such that data in the distributed file system is immediately available to virtual machines of both the first and second clusters;
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• upon completion of program execution, deallocating virtual machines of at least the second cluster.