Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 06/07

20070150893 - Method, apparatus and system for enhanced cpu frequency governers: A method, apparatus and system enable enhanced processor frequency governors to comprehend virtualized platforms and utilize predictive information to enhance performance in virtualized platforms. Specifically, in one embodiment, an enhanced frequency governor in a virtual host may run within a virtual machine on the host and interact with a virtual... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070150894 - System for determining and reporting benefits of borrowed computing resources in a partitioned environment: An apparatus, program product and method improve reporting of performance data in computing systems having uncapped partitions, or partitions that can borrow computer resources. A system measures or otherwise determines time of processor use or another metric that relates to the actual use of a computer resource by the uncapped... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070150895 - Methods and apparatus for multi-core processing with dedicated thread management: Methods and apparatus for dedicated thread management in a CMP having processing units, interface blocks, and function blocks interconnected by an on-chip network. In various embodiments, thread management occurs out-of-band allowing for fast, low-latency switching of threads without incurring the overhead associated with a software-based thread-management thread.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070150898 - Method, apparatus & computer program product for borrowed-virtual-time scheduling: The present invention includes a scheduling mechanism that fairly allocates a resource to a number of schedulable elements of which some are latency-sensitive. The invention tracks each element's use of the resource by determining the element's virtual time. An active element is selected from the elements that are ready to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070150897 - Methods and apparatus for detecting deadlock in multithreading programs: A method of detecting deadlock in a multithreading program is provided. An invocation graph is constructed having a single root and a plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more functions written in code of the multithreading program. A resource graph is computed in accordance with one or more resource... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070150896 - Systems and methods for quantitative application measurement: Systems and methods are disclosed for quantitative measurements of an application and a computer. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for determining whether to instantiate an application on one of a plurality of interconnected computers. Moreover, the method includes receiving information regarding the application to be instantiated... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070150899 - Semaphore management method and computer product: A semaphore handle is retrieved from a symbol-handle table, which stores a semaphore handle of a semaphore controlling a resource in association with a resource symbol included in a semaphore operation command issued by a task. In case of an “Acquire semaphore” command, the semaphore indicated by the retrieved semaphore... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070150900 - Data structure and management techniques for local user-level thread data: Data structure creation, organization and management techniques for data local to user-level threads are provided. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070143753 - Remote performance monitor in a virtual data center complex: Performance data is received at a Remote Performance Monitor (RPM) Server residing on a target virtual operating system within a virtual data center complex. The performance data is generated, and served at predefined intervals, by a Central Performance Data Server operable for the virtual operating system within the virtual data... Agent: International Business Machines CorpIPLaw

20070143754 - Virtual machine system and virtual machine control method: 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... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070143757 - Program product, operating system, compiler, and electronic device for reducing the power consumption: If an interrupt occurs due to an interrupt factor during a user program execution, a control program product for a microcomputer changes the operating frequency. The control program product then executes a subroutine and performs an operating frequency restoration process. The operating frequency restoration process is a common process that... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070143755 - Speculative execution past a barrier: In a multi-threaded program, a thread, of a set of threads sharing a synchronization barrier, indicating that the thread has reached the synchronization barrier to each other thread of the set of threads, the thread beginning a transactional memory based transaction after the indicating, and the thread continuing execution past... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070143756 - System and method for performing time-flexible calendric storage operations: A system and method are provided for creating a non-standard calendar that may have customized attributes, such as number of days in a month, first day of a month, number of months in a year, first month of a year, number of years, or other customized attributes. Such non-standard calendars... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070143758 - Facilitating scheduling of jobs by decoupling job scheduling algorithm from recorded resource usage and allowing independent manipulation of recorded resource usage space: A method, system and program product are provided for facilitating scheduling of computer jobs of a computing environment having a plurality of resources. The method includes decoupling a job scheduling algorithm from responsibility for maintaining data structures for tracking recorded usage of the plurality of resources by computer jobs. The... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070143759 - Scheduling and partitioning tasks via architecture-aware feedback information: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing a first level task of an application in a first processor of a system and dynamically allocating a second level task of the application to one of the first processor and a second processor based on architectural feedback information.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070143760 - Scheduling of computer jobs employing dynamically determined top job party: A facility is presented for scheduling computer jobs of a computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes. The facility includes scheduling N sequential computer jobs of a job queue until achieving a top job party, wherein N≧2, and the number of jobs in the top job party is dynamically... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070143762 - Assigning tasks in a distributed system based on ranking: A method and apparatus are provided for selecting a remote system suitable to process one or more tasks. The method includes transmitting a utility to a plurality of remote systems; receiving ranking values generated by the execution of the utility by each of the plurality of remote systems; and selecting... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070143761 - Task scheduler system and method for managing tasks in an embedded system without a real time operating system: A task scheduler system and method for managing tasks in an embedded system executes both unscheduled and scheduled tasks in their respective queues in a prescribed order without dependence on a Real Time Operating System (RTOS).... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070143767 - Method, system and computer program for dynamic resources allocation: A provisioning method and a corresponding apparatus for managing a data processing system including a plurality of exploiter entities and a plurality of resources, the system maintaining a repository with system requirements of the plurality of exploiter entities. The provisioner monitors any possible needs for further resources of the exploiters.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070143768 - Conflict resolution apparatus: The conflict resolution apparatus of the present invention resolves a conflict between programs, including: a conflict information storage unit (16) for storing a conflict information table indicating a conflict relationship according to a combination of first attributes of the programs; an update unit (13) which updates the conflict information table... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070143766 - Deadlock detection in a computing environment: A method and system for detecting deadlock is provided. A second thread monitors a first thread's attempts to lock or release resources in a computing execution environment. A deadlock is detected in response to the second thread determining that the first thread failed to lock or release a resource as... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070143764 - Estimating resource usage: A method for allocating resources of a group of resources to tasks of a group of tasks, the method comprising: forming a resource set comprising a resource record for each of the resources of the group of resources, each resource record having one or more fields representative of attributes of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070143765 - Method and system for scheduling of jobs: A method and system of resource allocation for execution of a job are provided. The method includes receiving feedback (134) regarding the execution of previously submitted jobs on one or more resource nodes (101-104), and estimating the resources required for execution of a submitted job based on the feedback (134)... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070143763 - Processor for controlling performance in accordance with a chip temperature, information processing apparatus, and mehtod of controlling processor: A heat generation amount estimation unit acquires the number of sub processors currently in operation, acquires the current operating frequency, and estimates the amount of heat generation after a period Δt. A temperature control unit estimates the temperature after the period Δt based on the current temperature input from a... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070136724 - Transferring registers in transitions between computer environments: A method and apparatus for transferring registers in transitions between computer environments. An embodiment of a method includes running a first process in a first computer environment and switching to a second process in a second computer environment. The method further provides for transferring a register to the second computer... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136723 - Using virtual hierarchies to build alternative namespaces: A containment mechanism provides for the grouping and isolation of multiple processes running on a single computer using a single instance of the operating system. A system is divided into one or more side-by-side and/or nested isolated environments enabling the partitioning and controlled sharing of resources by creating different views... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070136728 - Computer readable medium in which program is stored, computer data signal embodied in carrier wave, information processing apparatus that executes program, and program control method for executing program: There is provided a computer readable medium storing a subprogram causing a computer to execute a subprocess that includes a predetermined process performed in response to a call from a caller program and a return process to return the result of the predetermined process to the caller program. The subprocess... Agent: Gauthier & Connors

20070136727 - Method, system and program of outputting information: An information output method for displaying information of a computer system executing a plurality of tasks includes the steps of reading out task construction information corresponding to a task executed by the computer system from a storage device and displaying by an output device the task construction information in a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070136725 - System and method for optimized preemption and reservation of software locks: A system and method is provided that reserves a software lock for a waiting thread is presented. When a software lock is released by a first thread, a second thread that is waiting for the same resource controlled by the software lock is woken up. In addition, a reservation to... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070136726 - Tunable processor performance benchmarking: A tunable processor performance benchmarking method and system (100) estimates candidate software performance on a target processing environment (104) without porting the application. The candidate software's resource consumption is characterized to determine cache hit or miss rates. A test software generator (102) generates test software that is configured to have... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070136729 - Method and system for efficient audio scheduling for dual-decode digital signal processor (dsp): Methods and systems for coordinating the handling of information are disclosed herein and may include scheduling multiple processing tasks for processing multimedia data by a processor. A portion of the scheduled multiple processing tasks may be preprocessed and the preprocessed portion may be buffered within a modifiable buffer that handles... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070136730 - Methods and system for managing computational resources of a coprocessor in a computing system: Systems and methods are provided for managing the computational resources of coprocessor(s), such as graphics processor(s), in a computing system. The systems and methods illustrate management of computational resources of coprocessors to facilitate efficient execution of multiple applications in a multitasking environment. By enabling multiple threads of execution to compose... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070136731 - Systems and methods for prioritizing tasks: A system for calculating a normalized priority rating for a task is provided. The system includes a computing platform configured to receive an indication of whether the task is a forced change. If the task is a forced change, the computing platform is configured to assign a predetermined normalized priority... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070136732 - Resource assigning method and diagnostic system of arithmetic circuit using the same: A resource assigning method and a diagnostic system of an arithmetic circuit using the same are provided, which can determine the normality of the arithmetic circuit in real time during system operation without increasing the scale of the apparatus. The method includes the steps of setting a rate b of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070136733 - Method, medium and apparatus storing and restoring register context for fast context switching between tasks: A method, medium and apparatus for storing and restoring a register context for a fast context switching between tasks is disclosed. The method, medium and apparatus may improve overall operating speed of a system by increasing the speed of context switching. The method may include adding an update code for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070130566 - Migrating virtual machines among computer systems to balance load caused by virtual machines: A cluster comprises a plurality of computer systems, wherein each of the plurality of computer systems is configured to execute one or more virtual machines. Each of the plurality of computer systems comprises hardware and a plurality of instructions. The plurality of instructions, when executed on the hardware, migrates at... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070130567 - Symmetric multi-processor system: The present invention relates generally to computer operating systems, and more specifically, to operating system calls in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) environment. Existing SMP strategies either use a single lock or multiple locks to limit access to critical areas of the operating system to one thread at a time. These... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070130568 - Adaptive execution method for multithreaded processor-based parallel system: Provided is a parallel program execution method in which in order to reflect structural characteristics of a multithreaded processor-based parallel system, performance of the parallel loop is predicted while compiling or executing using a performance prediction model and then the parallel program is executed using an adaptive execution method. The... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070130569 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a no context switch attribute that allows a user mode thread to become a near interrupt disabled priority: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a no context switch attribute that allows a user mode thread to become a near interrupt disabled priority is disclosed. A thread includes a no context switch attribute. Control of a thread based on the no context switch attribute is much... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel