Job routing to earliest available resources in a parallel job scheduler

摘要

A method is provided for starting a job in a parallel batch job data processing system in which a job is submitted to a scheduler having available, for use, a plurality of resource classes in the data processing system and by also including, within the job, instructions which cause notification of job starting to the scheduler and then, upon this notification, removing the job from all but the first resource class on which it is started.