Abstract: At least one job path of a plurality of jobs of a workload may be traversed, each job of the plurality of jobs including job preparation operations and job logic operations, and having a job start condition. At least one job in the at least one job path may be selected to be an accelerated job, to thereby accelerate completion of the workload. The accelerated job may be scheduled to begin at a job preparation start time that is earlier than the job start time by at least a job preparation time used to complete accelerated job preparation operations of the accelerated job. Prior to the job start time, a wait command may be received from the accelerated job upon completion of the accelerated job preparation operations. The accelerated job may be released from the wait command to execute job logic operations of the accelerated job in response to the job start condition.