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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7530071 | Facilitating access to input/output resources via an I/O partition shared by multiple consumer partitions At least one input/output (I/O) firmware partition is provided in a partitioned environment to facilitate access to I/O resources owned by the at least one I/O firmware partition. The I/O resources of an I/O firmware partition are shared by one or more other partiti... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526767 | Methods for automatic group switching according to a resource plan A resource scheduler is provided for allocating a computer system resource to database management system (DBMS) processes. The resource scheduler operates according to resource plans and resource allocation methods. Each plan allocates the resource according to a re... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523453 | System, method and program product for maintaining session information during dynamic resource additions or updates Under the present invention, a system, method, and program product for dynamically adding resources in a web application server are provided. The method comprises: providing a resource; detecting an availability of the resource using a resource lookup web applicatio... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7516457 | Componentized automatic provisioning and management of computing environments for computing utilities The present invention provides systems, methods and apparatus for automatically provisioning and managing resources in a computing utility. Its automation procedures are based on a resource model which allows resource-specific provisioning and management tasks to be... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512948 | Method, system, and program for managing operation requests using different resources Provided is a method, 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 w... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509644 | Operating system capable of supporting a customized execution environment Operating system methods and techniques for supporting one or more custom execution environments (CE2s) are provided. According to one embodiment, a determination is made with respect to which system resources of a computer system, if any, are to remain u... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7503045 | Extensible computing system Methods and apparatus providing a dynamically sized, highly scalable and available server farm are disclosed. A Virtual Server Farm (VSF) is created out of a wide scale computing fabric (“Computing Grid”) which is physically constructed once and then logically d... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500242 | Low-contention lock The present disclosure relates to acquiring and releasing a shared resource via a lock semaphore and, more particularly, to acquiring and releasing a shared resource via a lock semaphore utilizing a state machine. ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496920 | Dynamic computing environment using remotely allocable resources A system and a method of providing a dynamic computing environment to a user, in which the dynamic computing environment is configured to communicate and to operate under the control of the user. The dynamic computing environment has one or more virtual resources in... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7487504 | Thread dispatch for multiprocessor computer systems A thread dispatch mechanism dispatches threads in a multiprocessor computer system that has hardware multithreading enabled, thereby allowing each processor to execute multiple threads. The thread dispatch mechanism determines which processors are busy and cannot ex... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487506 | Autonomous management of system throughput A computer program product stored on computer storage media includes instructions for managing a workload in a computing system. The product including instructions for collecting resource and state data for a plurality of service class periods, calculating a long te... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487505 | Multithreaded microprocessor with register allocation based on number of active threads A mechanism in a multithreaded processor to allocate resources based on configuration information indicating how many threads are in use. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484216 | System and method for decoupling space reservation in transactional logging systems A common logging system (a “virtual logging system”) that presents to one or more log clients the appearance that each log client is interacting with a dedicated logging system. In reality, the virtual logging system is multiplexing virtual log streams, includin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480911 | Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating and deallocating processors in a logical partitioned data processing system A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of processors. In response to a request to deallocate a processor assigned to a partition within the logical partitioned data processing system, the processor in the set of processors, is stopped. In ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480912 | Method for policy-based, autonomically allocated storage Methods for allocation of storage resources, performance monitoring, and reallocation of resources to eliminate hot spots, by specifying high-level goals, rather than by means of low-level manual steps. Policies are specified as administrator specified constraints u... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7475399 | Method and data processing system optimizing performance through reporting of thread-level hardware resource utilization According to a method of operating a data processing system, one or more monitoring parameter sets are established in a processing unit within the data processing system. The processing unit monitors, in hardware, execution of each of a plurality of schedulable soft... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7475398 | System and method for implementing a smart system call According to the present invention, a “smart system call” may be implemented. The smart system call employs a code “stub” that is used to make function calls to privileged memory locations. The code stub includes facilities to determine the current mode of e... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472390 | Method and apparatus to enable execution of a thread in a multi-threaded computer system Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method to enable execution of a thread in a multi-threaded computer system is provided. The method may include enabling execution of a non-executing thread based at least on whether a hardw... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7472391 | Resource loader for applications that utilize relative uniform resource identifiers A resource loader provides resource lookup and redirection to computer software applications. The resource loader allows applications to be written using relative Uniform Resource Identifier (“URI”) rather than hard-coded URI that includes a protocol identified ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469407 | Method for resource balancing using dispatch flush in a simultaneous multithread processor The processing of instructions from multiple threads using a shared dispatch pipeline is controlled by invoking a dispatch flush operation wherein instructions of a selected thread in the shared dispatch pipeline are flushed in response to resource requirements. A f... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7467384 | Uniform resource discovery with multiple computers Data associated with a function instance corresponding to a resource on one computer system is published for use on another computer system. A function instance is created on the other computer system using the published data. ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7467383 | System for controlling task execution using a graphical representation of task dependency A specification of a graphical representation of task dependency has a plurality of task elements each associated with a different task, a resource element having a plurality of attachment locations, and linking elements coupling the task elements to the resource el... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7458078 | Apparatus and method for autonomic hardware assisted thread stack tracking Method and apparatus for tracking thread stacks during a trace of a computer program. Hardware assistance mechanisms allow a processor to autonomically maintain a thread work area for each thread where a call stack is stored. An operating system informs the processo... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454753 | Semaphore management subsystem for use with multi-thread processor systems A generic method and apparatus for managing semaphores in a multi-threaded processing system has a storage area for each of the threads in the processing system. Each storage area includes a first part for storing at least one indicia for identifying at least one un... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454754 | System for providing resources based on licensing contract with user by correcting the error between estimated execution time from the history of job execution A network system includes an application service provider (ASP) which is connected to the Internet and executes an application, and a CPU resource provider which is connected to the Internet and provides a processing service to a particular computational part (e.g.,... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451450 | Resource manager architecture Resource management architectures implemented in computer systems to manage resources are described. In one embodiment, a general architecture includes a resource manager and multiple resource providers that support one or more resource consumers such as a system co... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451449 | Work allocation system A work allocation system has a plurality of agents that bid for work in accordance with preferences and behavior of corresponding resources. Each agent represents a group of resources and is arranged to evaluate the likelihood that at least one resource in the group... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451448 | Methods for selectively quiescing a computer system A computer system is selectively quiesced by preventing selected resource consumers from starting new activity on a computer system, while allowing already-running activity to continue. Resource consumers are divided into resource consumer groups, and some groups ar... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448037 | Method and data processing system having dynamic profile-directed feedback at runtime Software communicates to a processing unit a classification each of at least one schedulable software entity that the processing unit executes. A resource manager within the processing unit dynamically allocates hardware resources within the processing unit to the s... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444635 | Multi-task system for controlling execution of application sessions and reservation of resources Resource type specific Resource Handlers are provided for the reservation of resources for an application session, along with a Resource Allocation Manager for bookkeeping and analysis of a resource allocation situation, Application Session Management and Scheduling... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444633 | Federating legacy/remote content into a central network console Content from multiple remote/legacy consoles is aggregated within a central console to provide a single point-of-access for managing remote resources. Preferred embodiments deploy the central console as a network-accessible application, and this console application ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444636 | Method and system of determining attributes of a functional unit in a multiple processor computer system A method and system of determining by a first program an attribute of a first functional unit by referencing a virtual memory address (the first functional unit comprising a first processor and a random access memory (RAM) coupled to the first processor in a compute... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444634 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic locks for global resources One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates applying a dynamic lock to a range of a resource within a computer system. Upon receiving a request to lock to the range of the resource from a thread, the system examines an active lock pool... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444637 | Systems and methods for scheduling coprocessor resources in a computing system Systems and methods for scheduling coprocessing resources in a computing system are provided without redesigning the coprocessor. In various embodiments, a system of preemptive multitasking is provided achieving benefits over cooperative multitasking by any one or m... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444638 | Method for scheduling executions of real-time processes to guarantee satisfaction of various timing constraints A system and methods for scheduling executions of real-time processes, including periodic processes and asynchronous processes to guarantee satisfaction of various timing constraints. The system schedules their executions in two phases: a pre-run-time (off-line) pha... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444640 | Controlling processing networks According to an embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for allocating load to processing nodes in a processing cluster arranged as an object dependency network. The method includes establishing at a load allocation function a plurality of load allocation ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444316 | Method for scheduling jobs using distributed utility-based preemption policies One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that assigns jobs to a system containing a number of central processing units (CPUs). During operation, the system captures a current state of the system, which describes available resources on the system, ch... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441242 | Monitoring performance of a logically-partitioned computer A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment collect a performance metric of a first partition in a logically-partitioned computer. If the difference between the performance metric and an expected performance metric exceeds a threshol... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441243 | Exception handling in the processing of proposal requests in a grid computing environment A system, method, and service associated with a computing grid or a virtual organization include a request for proposal (RFP) generator, where the RFP describes a data processing task. The RFP is provided to multiple resource providers via the computing grid where e... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441244 | Workload scheduler with cumulative weighting indexes A workload scheduler supporting the definition of a cumulative weighting index is proposed. The scheduler maintains (384-386) a profile for each job; the profile (built using statistics of previous executions of the job) defines an estimated usage of d... | 10/21/2008 |
