Methods and systems of managing a resource in a distributed resource management system can include: receiving a resource request including data identifying at least one requested resource attribute; identifying one or more candidate resources from a plurality of resources by performing element-wise operations on one or more resource attribute element sets corresponding to the at least one requested resource attribute, each resource attribute element set comprising an element for each of the plurality of resources, each element representing a resource attribute for a respective resource of the plurality of resources; and scheduling a workload associated with the resource request for execution based on the one or more identified candidate resources.