Optimizing power consumption and performance in a hybrid computer environment

A hybrid computer system comprising:

• a plurality of computer platforms connected together including a front-end computer system and a multi-node computer system;
• an application with an application profile, wherein the application includes a portion of the application which can be accelerated and where the application profile includes historical information for the application and user preferences, wherein the historical information records a historical power consumption and run time of the portion of the application executing on the multi-node computer system and a historical power consumption and run time of the portion of the application running on the front-end system;
• when the portion of the application that can be accelerated is encountered upon execution of the application on the front-end system, a resource scheduler analyzes the application profile to determine whether to accelerate the portion of the application based on the historical information and the user preferences in the application profile;
• wherein the resource scheduler determines an increased power consumption and a run time improvement by comparing the historical power consumption and run time on the portion of the application executing on the multi-node computer system and the historical power consumption and run time on the portion of the application running on the front-end system;
• and
• wherein when the resource scheduler determines that the increased power consumption is low compared to the run time improvement the resource scheduler sends the application to the multi-node computer system for accelerated execution.