| 20110320233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARBITRAGING COMPUTING RESOURCES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is are methods and systems for processing a workload among a plurality of computing resources that optimizes the processing price per workload. The method includes breaking the workload into two or more tasks each having a size optimized based on (i) a price history of one or more of the plurality of computing resources and (ii) a predicted duration to complete processing of each of the respective tasks; and sending one of the two or more tasks to a computing resources for which the size of the tasks is optimized. | 12-29-2011 |
