Job-centric scheduling in a grid environment

A method for scheduling a job in a networked computing grid, the job comprising executable program code and having certain resource requirements for completing an electronic task, the method comprising:

• providing a plurality of resources within the networked computing grid;
• providing one or more resource manager components for managing one or more of the plurality of resources;
• providing one or more information components in communication with the one or more resource manager components, the one or more information components being operable to aggregate resource data obtained from the one or more resource manager components;
• enabling the job in its program code to schedule itself to one or more of the plurality of resources, wherein enabling the job comprises enabling the job to query the one or more information components and evaluate whether one or more of the plurality of resources is compatible with the resource requirements of the job;
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• scheduling the job via its program code to the one or more of the plurality of resources based on the evaluation.

A method for scheduling a job comprising executable program code and having certain resource requirements for completing an electronic task within a networked computing grid having a plurality of resources, the method comprising:

• providing a plurality of resource manager components for managing the plurality of resources associated with the networked computing grid;
• aggregating resource data obtained from the resource manager components;
• enabling the job in its program code to query the resource data to evaluate whether one or more of the plurality of resources is compatible with the resource requirements of the job;
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• scheduling the job via its program code to one or more of the plurality of resources determined to be compatible with the resource requirements of the job via communication between the job and one or more of the plurality of resource manager components associated with the one or more of the plurality of resources determined to be compatible.