| CPC G06F 9/5038 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
evaluating, via a bursting service, a plurality of jobs received from a plurality of users, the plurality of jobs being in a job queue to yield an evaluation, wherein the evaluation determines whether there are enough active nodes in a combination of nodes in the current cluster and first nodes in an on-demand cluster to process the plurality of jobs in the job queue;
determining, via the bursting service and based on the evaluation, a bursting mode from a plurality of bursting modes;
bursting from the current cluster into the on-demand cluster based on the bursting mode determined via the bursting service to yield a new cluster comprising second nodes from the on-demand cluster in addition to the nodes in the current cluster and first nodes of the on-demand cluster; and
processing the plurality of jobs via at least one of the current cluster and the new cluster.
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