APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER JOB WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION

A job distribution system implemented by a computer network having a plurality of nodes, each having a cross-mounted local directory. The job distribution system has a job balance object, a node-processing object, and an updatable node distribution table. The job distribution system is on a first node of the plurality of nodes. A node daemon object is on each of the plurality of nodes. The job balance object has access to the local directory of each remaining node. The updatable node distribution table has a plurality of distribution data structures which correspond to each of the remaining nodes, and are updated by the node daemon object with a job status value. With these objects, the job balance object distributes the plurality of jobs by averaging the job status value of each of the remaining nodes to distribute a plurality of the pending job requests.