Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 04/06

20060090160 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing productivity: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing productivity. Methods include establishing a planned execution time for performing a task. The task is assigned a unique identifier. Methods further include comparing the planned execution time with an actual execution time for performing the task and, based...

20060090161 - Performance-based workload scheduling in multi-core architectures: Systems and methods of managing workloads provide for detecting a workload for a system having a first processor core with a first performance indicator and a second processor core with a second performance indicator. The workload is scheduled based on the first and second performance indicators settings. In one embodiment,...

20060090162 - Method, system, and apparatus for establishing a software configurable computing environment: A software configurable computing environment can include at least one application disposed within the software configurable computing environment. The environment can also include a resource management engine configured to define at least one computing resource for the software configurable computing environment. A resource allocation engine can allocate the computing resources...

20060090163 - Method of controlling access to computing resource within shared computing environment: An embodiment of a method of controlling access to a computing resource within a shared computing environment begins with a first step of measuring performance parameters for workloads accessing the computing resource to determine a performance parameter vector for the workloads. The method continues with a second step of estimating...

20060085785 - Method and apparatus for configuring, monitoring and/or managing resource groups including a virtual machine: In one embodiment, methods and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a virtual machine in a resource group. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a resource group in accordance with a relocation policy that authorizes relocation of a resource from one cluster to another. In a...

20060085784 - Systems and methods for authoring and accessing computer-based materials using virtual machines: The present invention is directed to a system for authoring and accessing computer-based materials, a high-level method of using the system, and method of saving the state and data from an authoring host onto a storage host. The system and methods employ virtual machines to save the state and data...

20060085793 - Apparatus, system, and method for automatically minimizing real-time task latency and maximizing non-real time task throughput: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for automatically minimizing Real-Time (RT) task latency and maximizing Non-Real Time (NRT) task throughput. The apparatus may include a task manager, a determination module, and optionally a tracking module. The task manager may execute a NRT task configured to obtain exclusive access to...

20060085790 - Goal based user interface for managing business solutions in an on demand environment: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a goal-based graphical user interface for managing business solutions and more particularly, a user interface that helps a user manage and achieve the user's goals across multiple platforms for the solutions utilized by the goals. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide a system...

20060085788 - Grammar-based task analysis of web logs: A method of detecting tasks performed by users wherein a single task is a sequence of web URLs invocation. Task patterns are detected in web logs to identify tasks performed by users and analyze task trends over time, across corporate divisions and geographies. A grammar-based framework is used to model...

20060085794 - Information processing system, information processing method, and program: An information processing system, information processing method, and program are provided. The information processing system including a plurality of computing units includes an operating system execution unit executing an operating system and a management application execution unit executing a management application that manages an operation of the operating system. The...

20060085795 - Memory control method of graphic processor unit: A graphic memory is space-divided into a first area and a second area. In the first area, a task corresponding to a predetermined application is executed regardless of which task is processed by a main processor. A switchable area is divided in time so that data related to tasks corresponding...

20060085786 - Method and apparatus for determining which of two computer processes should perform a function x: In one embodiment, a method for determining which of two computer processes should perform a function X includes the following actions. If a second computer process is dependent on data received at a first computer process, it is determined whether the second computer process currently requires the data. If the...

20060085789 - Method and apparatus for moving processes between isolation environments: A method for moving an executing process from a source isolation scope to a target isolation scope includes the step of determining that the process is in a state suitable for moving. The association of the process changes from a source isolation scope to a target isolation scope. A rule...

20060085791 - Method for broadcasting a condition to threads executing on a plurality of on-chip processors: 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...

20060085787 - Method for providing a rapid response to an application launch request: A method, computer program product, and device provide a rapid response to a request to launch an application. The device includes a memory manager application, a memory, and a processor. The memory manager application is configured to receive a request to launch an application; to switch to the application, if...

20060085792 - Systems and methods for a disaster recovery system utilizing virtual machines running on at least two host computers in physically different locations: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for providing disaster recovery services using virtual machines. The invention provides an inexpensive and minimally intrusive way to provide disaster recovery services including recovery of the state of computer processors and devices. The system includes a production host and a backup...

20060080663 - Method and system for mapping threads or tasks to cpus in a parallel computer: The present invention provides a new method and system to provide a flexible and easily reconfigurable way to map threads or tasks of a parallel program to CPUs of a parallel computer. The inventive method replaces the necessity of coding the mapping of threads or tasks to CPUs in the...

20060080662 - Method and system for sharing and managing context information: A method and system for managing the presentation or display of information items or context are described. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises the steps of selecting an entity of a context type associated with a first display, determining at least one second display associated with the...

20060080664 - Methods and apparatus for enabling dynamic resource collaboration: Methods and apparatus for enabling collaboration with web pages and other resources is described. A method includes the step of establishing a collaboration session between a first client and a second client. A requested resource is cached with the session host in response to a request having a first uniform...

20060080660 - System and method for disabling the use of hyper-threading in the processor of a computer system: A system and method is disclosed for disabling a hyper-threading mode in the processor of a computer system when it is determined that the processor of the computer system is being adversely affected by the execution of a software application in a multi-threaded execution mode. The system and method disclosed...

20060080661 - System and method for hiding memory latency: A System and method for hiding memory latency in a multi-thread environment is presented. Branch Indirect and Set Link (BISL) and/or Branch Indirect and Set Link if External Data (BISLED) instructions are placed in thread code during compilation at instances that correspond to a prolonged instruction. A prolonged instruction is...

20060080666 - Method and system for scheduling jobs based on resource relationships: The present invention proposes a scheduler (205), which is used to submit execution of jobs according to a predefined plan. Each job is defined by a corresponding descriptor (210). The descriptor specifies the resources (115) to be used by the jobs (through their properties). In addition, for each resource the...

20060080665 - Methods, systems and computer program products for spreadsheet-based autonomic management of computer systems: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing a resource include using a first object to obtain data associated with the resource that is being managed. The first object may be embedded in a cell of a spreadsheet running on a spreadsheet application. Formula in the spreadsheet are executed, where...

20060075402 - Providing support for a timer associated with a virtual machine monitor: In one embodiment, a method includes transitioning control to a virtual machine (VM) from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), determining that a VMM timer indicator is set to an enabling value, and identifying a VMM timer value configured by the VMM. The method further includes periodically comparing a current value...

20060075408 - Distributed object execution system: A distributed object execution system delegates the allocation and control of computing tasks to intelligent agent applications running on computing resources. User applications can invoke object methods associated with an application interface of the distributed object execution system. The system converts this method invocation into an available computing job with...

20060075407 - Distributed system interface: A distributed processing system delegates the allocation and control of computing tasks to intelligent agent applications running on computing resources. This provides flexible control, efficient allocation, scalability, and simple adaptation of applications to the distributed processing system. The distributed processing system includes an agent, a server, application programming interfaces, and...

20060075403 - Looping constructs in object model software: A system and method for providing looping constructs to an object model where the looping construct is contained within a child object of a parent object. The system and method further provides for an enumerator to map between indexes representing a collection of objects to a child object comprising a...

20060075404 - Method and system for scheduling user-level i/o threads: The present invention is directed to a user-level thread scheduler that employs a service that propagates at the user level, continuously as it gets updated in the kernel, the kernel-level state necessary to determine if an I/O operation would block or not. In addition, the user-level thread schedulers used systems...

20060075406 - System and method for adaptive allocation of threads to user objects in a computer system: A method for optimizing enterprise server resources in a computer system is described. The method comprises monitoring at least one metric of the computer system capable of indicating a performance level thereof; determining whether the performance level needs to be improved; and responsive to a determination that the performance level...

20060075405 - System and method for allocation of threads to user objects in a computer system: A method for allocating threads to a user in a computer system is described. The method comprises queuing up work for a first user and permanently assigning a first thread to the first user, wherein the first thread performs the queued up work for the first user, and wherein each...