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Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for reserving resources in a massively parallel processing system comprising. The method includes receiving a reservation request for reserving at least one resource within a massively parallel processing system. The massively parallel processing system includes compute nodes, base partitions, switches, wires, and node cards. The reservation type associated with the reservation is determined. The reservation type is at least one of a number of compute nodes, a base partition list, a particular shape configuration, a particular job, and a particular partition. A set of requirements is generated based on the reservation type. A set of resources is identified for satisfying the set of requirements and the set of resources is reserved.
