System and method for dynamic rescheduling of multiple varying resources with user social mapping

#This application is related to commonly assigned U.S. application Ser. No. 12/856,216, entitled “HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AS A SERVICE”, filed concurrently herewith, on Aug. 13, 2010,which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

#1. Technical Field

#The present invention relates to scheduling resource time and more particularly to system and methods for scheduling resource usage which permits social interaction and negotiation between users and entities.

#The disclosure will provide details in the following description of preferred embodiments with reference to the following figures wherein:

#FIG. 1 a block/flow diagram showing a system/method for scheduling resource time in accordance with one embodiment;

#FIG. 2 a block/flow diagram showing a dependency resource data structure for hierarchically arranging resources and time slots in accordance with one embodiment;

#In accordance with the present principles, systems and methods are provided for users to schedule or reschedule reserved resources by negotiation using, e.g., user social networking information. In one embodiment, socially close or connected users can run or negotiate a resource together for efficient resource usage. Resource-availability visualization is provided to enable social resource usage behavior. Advantageously, resources can be negotiated peer to peer (as opposed to peer to system) and can increase the efficiency of the resource usage as well as user satisfaction. High performance computing (HPC) services in a cloud can take advantage of such systems and methods.

#The present invention provides an effect mechanism for users (or machines) to schedule or reschedule reserved resources by negotiation using user social networking information. Usually, socially close users would like to run or negotiate the resource together for efficient resource usage. Without the global resource availability capability visualization, it will inhibit this social resource usage behavior. Negotiating peer to peer (or peer to owner) can increase the efficiency of the resource usage as well as user satisfaction.

#As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present invention may be embodied as a system, method or computer program product. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer readable medium(s) having computer readable program code embodied thereon.