US Patent 10917463 Minimizing overhead of applications deployed in multi-clouds

A computer readable storage medium and methods for distributing an application among computing nodes in a distributed processing system. A method estimates a cost of storing information pertaining to the application on different computing nodes; estimates a cost for computing resources required to execute the application on different computing nodes; estimates a cost of inter-node communication required to execute the application on different computing nodes; and selects at least one computing node to execute the application based on minimizing a total of at least one of the cost estimates.