DISTRIBUTION JOB MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR A CLUSTER OF COMPUTERS, A GROUP OF COMPUTER CLUSTERS KNOWN AS A GRID AND GRIDS, DATA-CENTERS, UTILITY-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS, IN THE NATURE OF DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE WHICH PROVIDES A SINGLE, SECURE INTERFACE TO ALL OF THE CLUSTER OR GRID COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT BY ADMINISTRATORS, MANAGERS AND END-USERS IN THE NATURE OF ALLOCATION OF COMPUTER RESOURCES, ANALYSIS OF COMPUTING RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND STATUS INFORMATION, INSTALLATION OF SOFTWARE AND SOFTWARE UPGRADES MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING AND USAGE MANAGEMENT FOR REPORTING AND BILLING, 3RD PARTY APPLICATION INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT, WORKLOAD POLICY MANAGEMENT, AND JOB SCHEDULING FOR BOTH BATCH AND INTERACTIVE JOBS; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR MONITORING, MANAGING, PROFILING AND INDICATING AVAILABLE COMPUTING RESOURCES, NAMELY, FOR INTELLIGENT MULTIPLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, SCHEDULING AND COMPUTING RESOURCE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION THAT ENABLES ADMINISTRATORS, MANAGERS AND END-USERS TO CONTROL AND UTILIZE MULTIPLE COMPUTING RESOURCES ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTERS AND CLUSTERS AND FOR PROVIDING DATA IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTER RESOURCES ON EITHER A CLUSTER OR GRID OR GRIDS; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR STATISTICAL DIAGNOSTIC AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING, NAMELY, UTILIZATION OF COMPUTING RESOURCES, ANALYSIS OF EFFICIENT USE OF COMPUTER RESOURCES, ANALYSIS OF OPTIMIZATION OF COMPUTING RESOURCES, ANALYSIS OF FAIR SHARING OF COMPUTING RESOURCES, ANALYSIS OF LOAD-BALANCING OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS, ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONS, ENTITIES, INDIVIDUALS, CLASSIFICATIONS OF QUALITY OF SERVICE, QUEUES AND COMPUTING NODES; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR PROVIDING A QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR SUBMITTED JOBS, SCHEDULING GUARANTEES AND JOB RESERVATIONS FOR USERS, GROUPS, CLASSES, ACCOUNTS AND LEVELS OF QUALITY OF SERVICE; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR COMMAND-LINE AND GRAPHICAL RESOURCE AND WORKLOAD SIMULATION, INCLUDING SIMULATION OF SIMULTANEOUS INSTANCES TO EXPLORE THE EFFECTS OF CONFIGURATIONS AND POLICIES ON CLUSTERS OR GRIDS; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR DYNAMIC COMMAND-LINE AND GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER RESOURCES, NAMELY MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE LICENSES WITHIN A SINGLE COMPUTER ADMINISTRATIVE DOMAIN OR ACROSS MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTER ADMINISTRATIVE DOMAINS, FILE SPACE, NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE MEDIA, TAPE DRIVES, PROCESSORS, MEMORY, DISK, NETWORK BANDWIDTH, AND OTHER HARDWARE RESOURCES; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR INTERFACE AND COLLECTION OF END USER COMMANDS FOR JOB, QUEUE AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT, INTERNAL DIAGNOSTIC AND LOGGING FACILITIES, INTEGRATION OF PROVISIONING MANAGERS, BILLING SYSTEMS, IDENTITY AND SECURITY MANAGERS AND DATABASES, AND TRANSLATION OF RESOURCE MANAGER JOB SUBMISSIONS; DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR PEER-TO-PEER COLLABORATION OF MULTIPLE INSTANCES TO PROVIDE DOMAIN-SPECIFIC POLICIES AND TO PROVIDE NATIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND COMPUTER SERVICES, NAMELY, TROUBLESHOOTING OF COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PROBLEMS, MONITORING OF NETWORK PROBLEMS AND PROVIDING BACK-UP COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES, ALL IN THE AREA OF DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH SECURE CONNECTIONS FOR MANAGING, SCHEDULING, SIMULATING, PERFORMANCE MONITORING, AND ACCOUNTING FOR SINGLE AND MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS, NAMELY, GROUPS OF NETWORKED COMPUTERS KNOWN AS CLUSTERS, GROUPS OF CLUSTERS KNOWN AS A GRID OR GRIDS, DATA-CENTERS AND UTILITY-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEMS