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Efficient utilization of idle resources in a resource manager

Patent Number: 8443373
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Embodiments are directed to dynamically allocating processing resources among a plurality of resource schedulers. A resource manager dynamically allocates resources to a first resource scheduler. The resource manager is configured to dynamically allocate resources among a plurality of resource schedulers, and each scheduler is configured to manage various processing resources. The resource manager determines that at least one of the processing resources dynamically allocated to the first ...

Methods and systems for partitioning data in parallel processing systems

Patent Number: 8443372
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Techniques are disclosed for processing requests in a data processing system. While the principles of the invention are not limited to a particular domain, they are particularly suitable for use in an electronic trading system. By way of example of one aspect of the invention, a method for directing requests to at least one node in a system comprising multiple nodes and a plurality of requests comprises associating a number to each request, assigning at least one number to each node so as ...

Managing operation requests using different resources

Patent Number: 8443371
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Provided are a system and program for managing operation requests using different resources. In one embodiment, a first queue is provided for operations which utilize a first resource of a first and second resource. A second queue is provided for operations which utilize the second resource. An operation is queued on the first queue until the first resource is acquired. The first resource is released if the second resource is not also acquired. The operation is queued on the second queue ...

Method of assigning resources to fulfill a service request by a programming model abstraction layer at a data center based at least in part on a reference of the requested resource class indicative of an abstract amount of resources

Patent Number: 8443370
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An exemplary method includes hosting a service at a data center, the service relying on at least one software component developed according to a programming model and the data center comprising a corresponding programming model abstraction layer that abstracts resources of the data center; receiving a request for the service; and in response to the request, assigning at least some of the resources of the data center to the service to allow for fulfilling the request wherein the programming ...

Method and system for dynamically selecting a best resource from each resource collection based on resources dependencies, prior selections and statistics to implement an allocation policy

Patent Number: 8443369
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for optimizing storage allocations based on system resources are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for dynamic, policy-based allocation of system resources. The method includes specifying a plurality of system resource collections for representing sets of like system resources and their dependencies. An order in which the collections are to be evaluated during selection of a resource is ...

User controlled reconfiguring and saving of a task context comprising a configuration of a set of tools used by the user

Patent Number: 8443368
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The present invention pertains to the field of onboard flight management systems embedded in aircraft. The invention relates to a reconfiguration device (1) for reconfiguring a task processing context.

The reconfiguration device (1) according to the invention notably comprises:

- a module for managing the tasks to be carried out (2), performing a sorting of the tasks according to a priority criterion;
- a module for ...

Federated management in a distributed environment

Patent Number: 8443367
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Methods, systems, and techniques that enable enhanced coordination and management of a plurality of servers cooperatively operating in a cluster of servers. In one implementation, a plurality of enhanced Virtual Desktop Management (VDM) Servers operating in a Federated Virtual Desktop Management (VDM) Cluster are provided. Each of the enhanced VDM Servers active in the Federated VDM Cluster use federated task information pertaining to and derived from various executing federated tasks. ...

Techniques for establishing a parallel processing framework for a multi-tenant on-demand database system

Patent Number: 8443366
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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In accordance with embodiments, there are provided techniques for establishing a parallel processing framework in a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These techniques for establishing a parallel processing framework in a multi-tenant on-demand database system may enable embodiments to provide great flexibility to a tenant of the architecture to perform desired functions on content of the database without unduly consuming the resources of the ...

Methods and systems to clone a virtual machine instance

Patent Number: 8443365
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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In one embodiment, an initialization script including instructions to define a value of a parameter at a cloned virtual machine instance is generated and stored at a virtual disk of a source virtual machine instance. The value of the parameter at the cloned virtual machine instance is different from the value of the parameter at the source virtual machine instance. An image of the virtual disk is then sent to a virtual machine module. The cloned virtual machine instance is instantiated at ...

Virtual machine system and virtual machine control method

Patent Number: 8443364
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A user interface function for a virtual machine system based on a server or a PC is provided only by applying software without using SVP or the like. A control virtual machine is provided for controlling a virtual machine control screen which is displayed for defining virtual machines and instructing operations to the virtual machines. A virtual machine control program exclusively displays either a screen for each virtual machine or the virtual machine control screen in response to a screen ...

Coordinated virtualization activities

Patent Number: 8443363
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A computer includes a plurality of activity modules in multiple virtual machines. An activity module performs an activity, such as malware detection, in a virtual machine. A monitoring module receives virtualized infrastructure information of the computer comprising a hardware configuration of the computer and a virtual machine configuration of the computer. A scheduling module determines, based on the virtualized infrastructure information, scheduling instructions for an activity module. A ...

Computer system for determining and displaying performance problems from first storage devices and based on the problems, selecting a migration destination to other secondary storage devices that are operated independently thereof, from the first storage devices

Patent Number: 8443362
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system, and a management computer, in which the storage system receives data I/O request to virtual logical volumes and data I/O request to one or more real logical volumes, each of the virtual logical volumes is allocated to one of one or more pools, storage areas of physical storage systems are allocated to all storage areas defined as the pools, and when a performance problem has occurred in one of the virtual logical ...

Real-time-ready behavioral targeting in a large-scale advertisement system

Patent Number: 8442863
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A “Real-Time-Ready Analyzer” combines a data stream management system (DSMS) with a map-reduce (M-R) framework to construct a streaming map-reduce framework that is suitable for real-time Behavioral Targeting (BT) (or other temporal queries). The Real-Time-Ready Analyzer allows users to write “dual-intent” temporal analysis queries for BT. These queries are succinct and easy to express, scale well on large-scale offline data, and can also work over real-time data. Further, the ...

Method for equitable resource sharing between local and network filesystems

Patent Number: 8438575
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Computing resources shared by local and network filesystems may be used to maximum capacity by a single application, or equitably shared by multiple applications under heavy load. A portion of the resources are set aside for local filesystem use and a small number is reserved for each network filesystem. The remaining resources may be used by either local or network filesystems. An enforcement limit puts a ceiling on the number of resources that can be used by a single network filesystem. ...

Generating monotone hash preferences

Patent Number: 8438574
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Selecting a resource to fulfill a resource requirement is disclosed. For each resource requirement, a resource-specific affinity value is computed with respect to each of a plurality of resources. A bias is applied to each of at least a subset of the resource-specific affinity values. The biased, as applicable, resource-specific affinity values are sorted into a resource preference list. The sorted preference list is used to select a resource to fulfill the resource ...

Dependency on a resource type

Patent Number: 8438573
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A clusterware manager on a cluster of nodes interprets a resource profile. The resource profile defines resource profile attributes. The attributes include at least one attribute that defines a cluster dependency based on resource type. The attribute does not identify any particular resource of that resource type. Dependencies between resources are managed based on the attribute that specifies the cluster ...

Task scheduling method and apparatus

Patent Number: 8438572
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A method of scheduling execution of a plurality of tasks by a processor, the processor having a processor memory, the processor being arranged to load into the processor memory, during execution of a current task, data for a task that is scheduled for execution after the processor has completed the current task, the method comprising the steps of scheduling a next task for execution by the processor after the processor has completed a current task, and determining whether there is a high ...

Thread speculative execution and asynchronous conflict

Patent Number: 8438571
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In an embodiment, asynchronous conflict events are received during a previous rollback period. Each of the asynchronous conflict events represent conflicts encountered by speculative execution of a first plurality of work units and may be received out-of-order. During a current rollback period, a first work unit is determined whose speculative execution raised one of the asynchronous conflict events, and the first work unit is older than all other of the first plurality of work units. A ...

Resource allocator with knowledge-based optimization

Patent Number: 8438570
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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An automated resource allocation technique for scheduling a batch computer job in a multi-computer system environment. According to example embodiments, resource allocation processing may be performed when receiving a batch computer job that needs to be run by a software application executable on more than one computing system in the multi-computer system environment. The job may be submitted for pre-processing analysis by the software application. A pre-processing analysis result ...

Broadcasting a condition to threads executing on a plurality of on-chip processors

Patent Number: 8438569
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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The present invention provides for notifying threads. A determination is made whether there is a condition for which a thread is to be notified. If so, a notification indicia is broadcasted. A flag is set in at least one memory storage area as a function of the notification indicia wherein the setting the flag occurs without the intervention of an operating system. Therefore, latencies for notification of threads are ...

Speculative thread execution with hardware transactional memory

Patent Number: 8438568
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In an embodiment, if a self thread has more than one conflict, a transaction of the self thread is aborted and restarted. If the self thread has only one conflict and an enemy thread of the self thread has more than one conflict, the transaction of the self thread is committed. If the self thread only conflicts with the enemy thread and the enemy thread only conflicts with the self thread and the self thread has a key that has a higher priority than a key of the enemy thread, the ...

Information processing device and image processing apparatus

Patent Number: 8438567
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input data, a processing unit configured to process the data, an output unit configured to output the data, and an execution unit configured to execute a first process, a second process, and a third process. A function of an application is provided by operating the input unit, the processing unit, and the output unit in conjunction with each other. The first process executes application management software that manages ...

Managing assignment of partition services to virtual input/output adapters

Patent Number: 8438566
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Automated management of partition service assignment to a virtual input/output (VIO) adapter is provided. Responsive to creation of a new partition service in a data processing system, a partition priority number is determined for the new partition service, and, for each VIO adapter, the partition priority numbers of the partition services currently assigned to that VIO adapter are summed. For a VIO adapter with a lowest sum of partition priority numbers, logic determines whether assigning ...

Virtual machine migration managing method, computer using the method, virtualizer using the method and computer system using the method

Patent Number: 8438565
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In a system including a plurality of physical machines to execute virtual machines (VM1, VM2), migration virtual machine information and definition information are saved in a physical machine executing a virtual machine (VM1) to be migrated and a storage of a physical machine as a migration destination. During the migration of the virtual machine, machine identification information of a migration partner, unique information assigned to the virtual machine, and ...

Systems and methods for minimizing client computer system set-up time

Patent Number: 8438564
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products provide alternative desktop computing solutions and generally provide client devices configured to utilize one of a local common base image and a common base image stored remotely, with a user-specific overlay image remotely storing user specific data. The clients can be configured to store the common base image ...

Recording medium recording thereon virtual machine management program, management server device, and method for managing virtual machine

Patent Number: 8438563
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A virtual machine managing method includes: a dependence relation list generation step of detecting a dependence relation among virtual machines implemented on a physical machine and generating a dependence relation list, based on a detection result; a target management table generation step of reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected; and a halted target presentation step of ...

Techniques for allocating computing resources to applications in an embedded system

Patent Number: 8434092
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Techniques for allocating computing resources to tasks include receiving first data and second data. The first data indicates a limit for unblocked execution by a processor of a set of at least one task that includes instructions for the processor. The second data indicates a maximum use of the processor by the set. It is determined whether a particular set of at least one task has exceeded the limit for unblocked execution based on the first data. If it is determined that the particular ...

System and method for data synchronization for a computer architecture for broadband networks

Patent Number: 8434091
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which the processing units process programs, a direct memory access controller and a shared main memory. A synchronized system and method for the ...

Optimally managing computing images for deployment

Patent Number: 8434090
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Methods and apparatus involve “just-in-time” image creation services to address storage management issues faced by data centers. Representatively, a computing policy defines what images are required in software stacks according to intended workloads of computing devices during use and an order of assembly for each software stack is established. Upon a trigger event to instantiate an operating workload of any computing device, a workload image is configured for deployment to the hardware ...

Method and system for loading of image resource

Patent Number: 8434089
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Disclosed are image resource loading method comprising the steps of: identifying source data associated with a particular cell from a predetermined basic recording space, in case that a rendering event for the cell occurs; sequentially moving (5) unit source data constituting the identified source data to a first loading queue by a predetermined period; determining loading fitness with respect to the unit source data positioned at the first loading queue in accordance with a ...

Optimized capacity planning

Patent Number: 8434088
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A computer implemented method, system and/or program product determine capacity planning of resources allocation for an application scheduled to execute on a virtual machine from a set of multiple applications by computing a mean associated with a pool of pre-defined resources utilization over a time interval; computing a variance associated with the pool of pre-defined resources utilization over the same time interval; identifying a set of resource to execute the scheduled application from ...

Distributed acceleration devices management for streams processing

Patent Number: 8434087
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A method for managing distributed computer data stream acceleration devices is provided that utilizes distributed acceleration devices on nodes within the computing system to process inquiries by programs executing on the computing system. The available nodes and available acceleration devices in the computing system are identified. In addition, a plurality of virtual acceleration device definitions is created. Each virtual acceleration device definition includes attributes used to ...

Process scheduler employing adaptive partitioning of process threads

Patent Number: 8434086
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A system is set forth comprising a processor and memory storage units storing software code. The software code comprises code for a scheduling system and for generating a plurality of adaptive partitions that are each associated with one or more software threads and that each have a corresponding processor budget. The code also is executable to generate at least one sending thread and at least one receiving thread which responds to communications from the sending thread to execute one or ...

Scalable scheduling of tasks in heterogeneous systems

Patent Number: 8434085
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for scalable scheduling of tasks in heterogeneous systems is provided. According to one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises fetching a set of tasks to form a received input, estimating run times of tasks, calculating average estimated completion times of tasks, producing a set of ordered tasks from the received input to form a task list, identifying a ...

Resource allocator with knowledge-based optimization

Patent Number: 8434084
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Throttling an asynchronous remote copying system

Patent Number: 8434083
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A storage control system comprising: one or more I/O processors for receiving requests to write data; a batch controller for selecting one or more write requests to be placed in a first batch; a first server for transmitting the first batch to a second server in a remote copy pair system; one or more I/O handlers for writing the first batch to completion on a data storage medium, in response to receiving permission from the second server; and one or more clients for communicating with the ...

Efficient ticket lock synchronization implementation using early wakeup in the presence of oversubscription

Patent Number: 8434082
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A turn-oriented thread and/or process synchronization facility obtains a ticket value from a monotonically increasing ticket counter and waits until a memory location contains a value equal to the ticket value, yielding the processor between polls of the memory location only if a difference between the ticket value and the contents of the memory location exceeds a threshold value. Machine-readable media containing instructions to implement similar methods, and systems that can use the ...

Storage manager for virtual machines with virtual storage

Patent Number: 8434081
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A storage manager connects containers of virtual machine (VM) images and virtual storage device data within hosts. The storage management provides a set of northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow configuration of images associated with VM images and virtual storage devices provided to the operating systems and applications within virtual machine images. The northbound APIs, include methods for creating a virtual storage container that contains storage for the VM ...

Virtual machine switching control by prefetching information out of and updating a set of processor control information based on a bitmap having update status

Patent Number: 8429669
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Provided is a virtual machine including a first virtualization module operating on a physical CPU, for providing a first CPU, and a second virtualization module operating on the first CPU, for providing second CPU. The second virtualization module includes first processor control information holding a state of the first CPU obtained at a time of execution of the user program. The first virtualization module includes second processor control information containing a state of the physical CPU ...

Workflow task re-evaluation

Patent Number: 8429668
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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An occurrence of a workflow re-evaluation event during execution of tasks in a workflow is identified. In response to the workflow re-evaluation event, it is determined for each task previously executed in the workflow whether such task needs to be executed again. Those tasks in the workflow for which it was determined that the corresponding task needs to be executed again are executed again, while the tasks in the workflow that were previously executed and for which it was not determined ...

Storage system and method for controlling the same

Patent Number: 8429667
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Optimum load distribution processing is selected and executed based on settings made by a user in consideration of load changes caused by load distribution in a plurality of asymmetric cores, by using: a controller having a plurality of cores, and configured to extract, for each LU, a pattern showing the relationship between a core having an LU ownership and a candidate core as an LU ownership change destination based on LU ownership management information; to measure, for each LU, the ...

Computing platform with resource constraint negotiation

Patent Number: 8429666
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Various techniques are described for resource management on a computing platform. A computing platform can receive a query message that specifies an amount of a resource proposed for allocation. The computing platform can select a selected recommendation level from a plurality of recommendation levels, based on an evaluation of a request for the amount of the resource proposed for allocation. The computing platform can generate a resource allocation recommendation that includes the selected ...

Cache performance prediction, partitioning and scheduling based on cache pressure of threads

Patent Number: 8429665
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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A method is described for scheduling in an intelligent manner a plurality of threads on a processor having a plurality of cores and a shared last level cache (LLC). In the method, a first and second scenario having a corresponding first and second combination of threads are identified. The cache occupancies of each of the threads for each of the scenarios are predicted. The predicted cache occupancies being a representation of an amount of the LLC that each of the threads would occupy when ...

Job scheduling apparatus and job scheduling method

Patent Number: 8429664
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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When allocating an unallocated queued job, by using a CDA having a mesh structure to which active jobs are allocated, a job scheduling apparatus scans an event list that includes information about allocation events and release events for jobs, determines the coordinates and the time at which submeshes corresponding to the queued jobs are reserved, and arranges the submeshes by overlapping them on the ...

Allocating task groups to processor cores based on number of task allocated per core, tolerable execution time, distance between cores, core coordinates, performance and disposition pattern

Patent Number: 8429663
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Even if a multiprocessor includes an uneven performance core, an inoperative core or a core that does not satisfy such a performance as designed but if the contrivance of task allocation can satisfy the requirement of an application to be executed, the multiple processors are shipped. In a task group allocation method for allocating, to a processor having a plurality of cores, task groups included in an application for the processor to execute, a calculation section measures performances ...

Passing initiative in a multitasking multiprocessor environment

Patent Number: 8429662
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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A computer program product for passing initiative in a multitasking multiprocessor environment includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes writing a request to process a resource of the environment to an associated resource control block, setting a resource flag in a central bit vector, the resource flag indicating that a request for processing has been ...

Managing multi-threaded FIFO memory by determining whether issued credit count for dedicated class of threads is less than limit

Patent Number: 8429661
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Systems and methods storing data for multi-threaded processing permit multiple execution threads to store data in a single first-in first-out (FIFO) memory. Threads are assigned to classes, with each class including one or more threads. Each class may be allocated dedicated entries in the FIFO memory. A class may also be allocated shared entries in the FIFO memory. The shared entries may be used by any thread. Data for a first thread may be stored in the FIFO memory while data for a second ...

Systems and methods to allocate application tasks to a pool of processing machines

Patent Number: 8429660
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Systems and methods are provided to allocate application tasks to a pool of processing machines. According to some embodiments, a requestor generates a scope request including an indication of a number of compute units to be reserved. The requestor also provides an application request associated with the scope. A subset of available processing machines may then be allocated to the scope, and the application request is divided into a number of different tasks. Each task may then be assigned ...

Scheduling jobs within a cloud computing environment

Patent Number: 8429659
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach to prioritize jobs (e.g., within a cloud computing environment) so as to maximize positive financial impacts (or to minimize negative financial impacts) for cloud service providers, while not exceeding processing capacity or failing to meet terms of applicable Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Specifically, under the present invention a respective income (i.e., a cost to the customer), a processing need, and set of SLA terms (e.g., ...

Lock deferral for real-time garbage collection

Patent Number: 8429658
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Techniques are disclosed for schedule management. By way of example, a method for managing performance of tasks of a thread associated with a processor comprises the following steps. A request to execute a task of a first task type within the thread is received. A determination is made whether the processor is currently executing a critical section of a task of a second task type within the thread. When it is determined that the processor is not executing a critical section of the second ...