Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 02/06

20060041885 - Method for managing virtual machines: The aim of this invention is to propose a method allowing the use several virtual machines including applications and to federate these applications in order to form services. This aim is achieved by a method for managing applications, making use of at least two physical machines linked by communication means,...

20060041887 - Expert system for solution management: A plurality of roles associated with a solution are defined in a communication network. The solution is then instantiated by assigning specific devices and functionality to each of the plurality of roles associated with the solution. Communications are then monitored between the specific devices assigned to the plurality of roles...

20060041886 - Image sensing/playback apparatus, image data processing method, and data processing method: The image sensing/playback apparatus has an image sensing device that senses an image of an object and obtains electrical image data, an input/output I/F that inputs/outputs image data from/to an external storage medium, and a system controller that sequentially performs a plurality of tasks, exclusively controlling the input/output I/F and...

20060037017 - System, apparatus and method of reducing adverse performance impact due to migration of processes from one cpu to another: A system, apparatus and method of reducing adverse performance impact due to migration of processes from one processor to another in a multi-processor system are provided. When a process is executing, the number of cycles it takes to fetch each instruction (CPI) of the process is stored. After execution of...

20060037018 - System, method and software providing an adaptive job dispatch algorithm for large distributed jobs: A system, method and software are disclosed for scheduling the dispatch of large data processing operations. In an exemplary embodiment, the software identifies a plurality of information handling system nodes to receive a first dispatch of data processing operations. Identification of the nodes is generally directed to selection of a...

20060037019 - Tree-to-graph folding procedure for systems engineering requirements: A method is provided for generating a graph data representation having a plurality of nodes corresponding to respective systems engineering requirements. The method includes accessing a first data representation of a collection of systems requirements and relationships therebetween and generating a second data representation of the collection of systems requirements....

20060037020 - Scheduling threads in a multiprocessor computer: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for scheduling threads in a multiprocessor computer. Embodiments include selecting a thread in a ready queue to be dispatched to a processor and determining whether an interrupt mask flag is set in a thread control block associated with the thread. If the...

20060037021 - System, apparatus and method of adaptively queueing processes for execution scheduling: A system, apparatus and method of adaptively queueing processes for execution scheduling are provided. When a process yields its processor to another process, it is generally placed in a queue before it is re-scheduled for execution. If it is re-scheduled for execution within a longer period of time than needed,...

20060037022 - Apparatus, system, and method for automatically discovering and grouping resources used by a business process: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for automatically discovering and grouping files and other resources used by a business process. The present invention includes a monitoring module that collects trace data representative of operational behavior of software applications. An analysis module analyzes the trace data to discover resources affiliated...

20060037023 - Method and apparatus for avoiding data dependency hazards in a microprocessor pipeline architecture: A method and system for avoiding various hazards for instructions which are propagating through a microprocessor pipeline. When a plurality of instructions exist within the pipeline which read and write the same value, a vector is established to distinguish the older from the newer instructions. Further, before instructions are dispatched...

20060037024 - Managing processing system power and performance based on utilization trends: Systems and methods of managing processing system performance provide for determining a utilization of a processing system over a time quantum. A trend in the utilization of the processing system is also determined, where the trend can be used to select a performance state for the processing system. In one...

20060037025 - Method of setting priority levels in a multiprogramming computer system with priority scheduling, multiprogramming computer system and program therefor: A method for setting priority levels in a multiprogramming computer system (1) with priority scheduling, in which threads (15, 16, 17) of execution of each process (13, 14) have a standard priority level, comprises measuring relative use of one or more processors (2) in the system (1) by the threads...

20060031835 - Hierarchical management for multiprocessor system: The present invention provides for controlling the power consumption of an element. A first power control command is issued by software for the element. It is determined if the power control command corresponds to an allowable power control state for that element as defined by the hardware. If the power...

20060031836 - Hierarchical management for multiprocessor system with real-time attributes: The present invention provides for controlling the power consumption of an element. A first power control command is issued by software for the element. It is determined if the power control command corresponds to an allowable power control state for that element as defined by the hardware. If the power...

20060031838 - Method and apparatus for implementing priority management of computer operations: A development framework and runtime environment for applications that execute in real-time operating systems. Application development is enhanced by providing simple instructions that allow a programmer to declare any function as a function managed with priority. Compiler tools implement priority function and the management code for managing execution at runtime....

20060031834 - Optimizing transactions based on a set of persistent objects: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, identify a component that initiates a transaction in an application, calculate a set of persistent objects potentially enlisted by the transaction, and calculate a set of potential operations that the transaction may perform with respect to each of the...

20060031837 - Thread starvation profiler: A profiler of a multithreaded process that determines whether a process is runnable but not running by determining whether a process is both waiting for the processor and also not waiting for other events such as I/O. Counters are maintained for each such process that is runnable but not running....

20060031841 - Adaptive scheduler using inherent knowledge of operating system subsystems for managing resources in a data processing system: Method, system and computer program product for managing resources in a data processing system. Knowledge provided by each subsystem of a plurality of subsystems of an operating system regarding behavior of the subsystem is shared by other subsystems of the operating system, and the shared knowledge, together with existing functional...

20060031839 - Data processing apparatus and method of synchronizing at least two processing means in a data processing apparatus: The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and a method of synchronizing at least two processing means in such a data processing apparatus which allow multiple readers to share the same queue. No locks or special instructions are needed to simultaneously access the queue administration information by multiple readers....

20060031840 - Real time monitoring manufacturing scheduling and control: A method and system for visually displaying real-time enterprise management information is provided. An application integration platform receives plural types of data from manufacturing and information systems within an enterprise and analyzes the plural types of data to determine key performance indicators, such as a number of tardy jobs. A...

20060031842 - System and method for dividing computations: In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices of a distributed computing system....

20060031843 - Cluster system and method for operating cluster nodes: In one embodiment, a cluster system comprises a plurality of cluster nodes for executing a plurality of applications, and a management process for controlling the plurality of cluster nodes, wherein the management process is operable to identify a first application that is not meeting a service level objective (SLO), to...

20060031844 - Techniques for accessing a shared resource using an improved synchronization mechanism: A technique for accessing a shared resource of a computerized system involves running a first portion of a first thread within the computerized system, the first portion (i) requesting a lock on the shared resource and (ii) directing the computerized system to make operations of a second thread visible in...

20060031845 - Techniques for providing services and establishing processing environments: Techniques are provided for the delivery of client services and for the establishment of client processing environments. A client receives services within a processing environment which is defined by a processing container. The processing container includes one or more processing groups, and each processing group has a particular context that...

20060026592 - System and method for specifying virtual machines: The techniques described include a method and system for allowing applications which require or work better with different virtual machines to be successfully installed on a device in such a way that different applications may be executed in different virtual machines. The method comprises identifying an application and based on...

20060026593 - Categorizing, voting and rating community threads: A system and corresponding methods for categorizing a discussion thread is provided. In one embodiment, a method for categorizing a discussion thread includes receiving a request to initiate a discussion thread, determining a category for the discussion thread, categorizing the discussion thread based on the determined category, and creating the...

20060026596 - Context scheduling: A programmable processing system that executes multiple instruction contexts includes an instruction memory for storing instructions that are executed by the system, fetch logic for determining an address of an instruction, with the fetch logic including scheduling logic that schedules execution of the instruction contexts based on condition signals indicating...

20060026597 - Image processing apparatus and control method and program thereof: An image processing apparatus capable of registering in a memory the execution time interval or the next execution time for the periodic processing periodically executed, comprising: a unit adapted to registration for registering in the memory the execution time interval or the next execution time for a second periodic processing...

20060026594 - Multithread processor and thread switching control method: The present invention relates to a multithread processor. In the multithread processor, when a cache miss occurs on a request related to an instruction in, of a plurality of caches arranged hierarchically, a cache at the lowest place in the hierarchy, with respect to the request suffering the cache miss,...

20060026595 - Workflow management apparatus, workflow management program, and workflow management method: A workflow management apparatus that manages a plurality of processes constituting a workflow, comprises: an I/O information acquisition unit 13 that acquires I/O information defining, in each of the processes, output data obtained as a processing result and input data serving as the data related to processing; a process management...

20060026598 - Resource allocation management: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for managing system resource allocation. The first method includes the steps of (1) receiving a first command that requires a system resource; (2) receiving a first request for the system resource for the first command; (3) receiving a second command that...

20060026599 - System and method for operating load balancers for multiple instance applications: In one representative embodiment, a system for operating load balancers for multiple instance applications comprises a plurality of cluster nodes for executing applications, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of cluster nodes executes multiple applications and includes respective resource allocation modules for assigning resources between the multiple applications...