The goal of this work is to study the integration of resource reservation mechanisms with software infrastructures for cluster computing. To perform this study, we used the CSBase framework, which is a software infrastructure conceived to support the implementation and integration of scientific applications in heterogeneous and distributed environments. CSBase offers support for application execution in distributed environments, as well as support for management of users and computational resources, such as computers, data files and applications. However, the first applications developed with CSBase showed that it requires mechanisms to allow a better management of resources available in distributed environments, and especially in clusters of computers dedicated to execute high performance applications. In this work, we present an extension to CSBase that provides the reservation of processor time to user applications, thus allowing a more efficient resource management. This extension also guarantees that all required adaptations will be performed to accommodate variations in the applications´ processor usage profile. As a result of this extension, we achieved the integration of mechanisms for distributed resource monitoring, remote application execution, and processor reservation, providing a better utilization among the available machines.