Various embodiments enable a server system to consider a variety of priorities in determining how to organize, allocate, and manage client workloads in a distributed processing system. In at least one embodiment, a method may include generating a capability vector for one or more distributed devices, the capability vector defining a capability of the one or more distributed devices, determining a client priority for one or more client system, the client priority defining an order that a client system is granted access to submit one or more workloads to a distributed processing system for processing, assigning a workload priority to one or more workloads, the workload priority defining an order in which a workload is submitted to the distributed processing system for processing, and distributing one or more workloads form a client system to one or more distributed devices in response to the capability vector, the client priority, and the workload priority.