Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control inventions 03/09

20090083735 - High availability system and execution state control method: A high availability system includes a first computer on which a first virtual computer and a first hypervisor managing the first virtual computer operate, and a second computer on which a second virtual computer and a second hypervisor managing the second virtual computer operate. The first hypervisor includes an acquisition... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090083734 - Methods and systems for preserving certified software through virtualization: A method for reusing certified software applications without recertification is provided. The method includes creating a virtual machine, that includes at least one of the software applications, the virtual machine including an operating system and at least one interface, certifying the virtual machines, and deploying the certified virtual machine in... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090083736 - Virtualized computer, monitoring method of the virtualized computer and a computer readable medium thereof: A virtualized computer includes a CPU which shifts between a host mode and a guest mode. The CPU shifts executes either a guest OS or a virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the guest mode and executes a virtual machine monitor-monitor (VMMM) in the host mode. The VMM monitors the guest... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090083738 - Automated data object set administration: Modern computer systems may comprise massive sets of data objects of various types, such as data files, application binaries, database objects, proprietary objects managed by applications such as email systems, and system configuration information. Applying complex operations, such as archiving and synchronization operations, to many and varied data objects may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083737 - Device, system, and method of classifying a workload of a software service: Some embodiments include, for example, devices, systems, and methods of classifying a workload of a software service. A method of classifying a workload of a software service may include, for example, sampling a plurality of values of at least one parameter of the software service by performing out-of-band monitoring of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090083739 - Network resource access control methods and systems using transactional artifacts: Methods and systems are provided for use with digital data processing systems to control or otherwise limit access to networked resources based, at least in part, on transactional artifacts and/or derived artifacts.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090083740 - Asynchronous execution of software tasks: A service broker for asynchronous execution of software. The broker functions include dynamically loading working modules from a specified directory, publishing the working module commands, receiving service requests from clients, and upon successful authentication and authorization, dispatching the requests to module command queues for scheduling and execution. The modules are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083744 - Information writing/reading system, method and program: An information writing/reading system includes a thread scheduler unit configured to control a sequence of execution for a plurality of threads, a thread execution unit, a device driver unit configured, a disk mechanism, an end time estimation unit configured to estimate an end time of execution of an issued write... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090083742 - Interruptability management via scheduling application: A system and methodology that facilitates management of user accessibility via a scheduling application is provided. A user can link or map interruptability levels to schedule entries, such as calendar entries or tasks thereby facilitating automatic communication management. Essentially, interruptability rules (and corresponding categories) can be associated to calendar entries... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090083743 - System method and apparatus for binding device threads to device functions: A system apparatus and method for supporting one or more functions in an IO virtualization environment. One or more threads are dynamically associated with, and executing on behalf of, one or more functions in a device.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090083741 - Techniques for accessing a resource in a processor system: A technique of accessing a resource includes receiving, at a master scheduler, resource access requests. The resource access requests are translated into respective slave state machine work orders that each include one or more respective commands. The respective commands are assigned, for execution, to command streams associated with respective slave... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090083746 - Method for job management of computer system: A method for job management of a computer system, a job management system, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The method includes selecting, as a second job, a running job which is lower in priority than a first job and a number of computing nodes required for execution of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090083745 - Techniques for maintaining task sequencing in a distributed computer system: A technique for operating a distributed computer system includes receiving one or more current processing task elements. Each of the one or more respective current processing elements is associated with a different task that is currently being processed in a server cluster. A first task element is selected from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090083750 - Method and apparatus for controlling message traffic license: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling message traffic licenses. The method includes: controlling message traffic through an ordinary license; judging whether the triggering conditions of using the first extended license are fulfilled, and, if the triggering conditions are fulfilled, using the first extended license... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090083747 - Method for managing application programs by utilizing redundancy and load balance: A method for managing application programs includes: monitoring whether there is at least an application program which is unresponsive in a plurality of started application programs; and automatically restarting the application program which is unresponsive, and averagely allocating a system resource for the plurality of application programs according to a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090083748 - Program execution device: A resource information acquiring unit acquires processor resource information from outside. A program associating unit associates the processor resource information with a program. A processor resource allocating unit allocates processor resources to the program in accordance with the processor resource information when the program is executed.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090083749 - Restricting resources consumed by ghost agents: One aspect of the present invention can include a method for restricting resources consumed by ghost agents. The method can include the step of associating a ghost agent with a host. A resource utilization value can be ascertained for the ghost agent and the host combined. The ascertained resource utilization... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090083751 - Information processing apparatus, parallel processing optimization method, and program: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a plurality of execution units and a scheduler which controls assignment of a plurality of basic modules of a program to the plurality of execution units. The scheduler detects a parallel degree representing a parallelization ratio in parallel processing of a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090083752 - Event processing apparatus and method based on operating system: An event processing apparatus has an event queue that accumulates a plurality of events occurred temporally. The apparatus has event queue optimization means for executing filtering processes to delete one or more event based on optimization definition information, and/or for executing chunking processes to integrate a plurality of events into... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090083753 - Dynamic thread generation and management for improved computer program performance: The performance of an executing computer program is dynamically enhanced by creating one or more additional threads of execution and then intercepting function calls generated by the executing computer program and executing such function calls within one of the one or more additional threads. Each thread may be associated with... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090083754 - Implementation of multi-tasking on a digital signal processor: The present invention relates to the implementation for implementing multi-tasking on a digital signal processor. For that purpose blocking functions are arranged such that they do not make use of a processor's hardware stack. Respective function calls are replaced with a piece of inline assembly code, which in stead performs... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090083755 - Task scheduling of fiber-optic transceiver firmware: Systems and methods for optimizing the task scheduling efficiency of firmware and/or software associated with optoelectronic transceiver devices. In one example, a scheduling module executes microcode that schedules tasks based on the operational parameters. The scheduling module compares operational parameters with their last known values and then flags necessary tasks... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090077552 - Method of checking a possibility of executing a virtual machine: To determine, when a virtual machine is executed by an arbitrary machine, whether the virtual machine can access computer resources required for the virtual machine, provided is a method of checking a possibility of executing a virtual machine including a first physical computer for executing a first virtual machine and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090077551 - Virtual machine image builder for automated installation of fully-virtualized operating system: A customized image can be generated from a specified generic image and modifications. The contents of the generic image can be extracted and modified according to the specified modifications. The modifications can include, among other possibilities, a response file used in automating the installation of the customized image. The customized... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090077550 - Virtual machine schedular with memory access control: A computer system comprises a virtual machine scheduler that dynamically and with computed automation controls non-uniform memory access of a plurality of cells in interleaved and cell local configurations. The virtual machine scheduler maps logical central processing units (CPUs) to physical CPUs according to preference and solves conflicts in preference... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090077553 - Parallel processing of platform level changes during system quiesce: Various embodiments described herein provide one or more of systems, methods, and software/firmware that provide increased efficiency in implementing configuration changes during system quiesce time. Some embodiments may separate a quiesce data buffer into small slices wherein each slice includes configuration change data or instructions. These slices may be individually... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090077554 - Apparatus, system, and method for dynamic address tracking: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for dynamic address tracking. A token module creates a token for a job that accesses data in a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The token comprises a job name. The job is a batch job. A storage module stores location... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090077556 - Image media modifier: A method and apparatus for back-end processing a recordable media production job after it has been generated and sent to a recordable media production system is described that intercepts the image file generation at a low level within the recordable media production system and allows for adding, deletion and modification... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20090077555 - Techniques for implementing separation of duties using prime numbers: A technique for implementing separation of duties for transactions includes determining a current task assignment number of an entity. The technique also includes determining whether the entity can perform a new task based upon the current task assignment number and a task transaction number (which is based on at least... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090077557 - Method and computer for supporting construction of backup configuration: For a storage system which holds backup data of a first data storage extent in one or more second data storage extents in use of a first backup method, a backup status in a first backup method in a prescribed period is acquired and a first backup performance in a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090077558 - Methods and apparatuses for heat management in information systems: In some embodiments, an information system is divided into sections, with one or more first computers located in a first section and one or more second computers located in a second section, including a first temperature sensor sensing a temperature condition for the first section and a second temperature sensor... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090077560 - Strongly-ordered processor with early store retirement: In one embodiment, a processor comprises a retire unit and a load/store unit coupled thereto. The retire unit is configured to retire a first store memory operation responsive to the first store memory operation having been processed at least to a pipeline stage at which exceptions are reported for the... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090077559 - System 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., computation intensive part) of the application, wherein: when requesting... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090077561 - Pipeline processing method and apparatus in a multi-processor environment: A pipelining processing method and apparatus in multi-processor environment partitions a task into overlapping sub-tasks that are to be allocated to multiple processors, overlapping portions among the respective sub-tasks being shared by the processors that process corresponding sub-tasks. A status of each of the processors is determined during a process... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090077562 - Client affinity in distributed load balancing systems: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to client affinity in distributed load balancing systems. In aspects, a request from a requester is sent to each server of a cluster. Each server determines whether it has affinity to the requester. If so, the server responds to the request. Otherwise,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090077563 - Systems and methods for grid enabling computer jobs: Systems and methods for executing a computer program within a multiple processor grid computing environment. Execution behavior of the computer program is captured while the computer program is sequentially executing. The captured execution behavior is linked with steps contained in the source code version of the computer program. The captured... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090077564 - Fast context switching using virtual cpus: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide fast context switching. One embodiment provides a method for a context switch comprising preloading a host virtual machine context in a first portion of a processor, operating a guest virtual machine in a second portion of the processor, writing parameters of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090070761 - System and method for data communication with data link backup: According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a data communication device for processing a data stream, including a runtime virtual machine (VM) and a mirror VM. The two VMs are independently running on the same physical hardware of the data communication device. The runtime VM is operable... Agent: Patent Prosecution O2mirco , Inc.

20090070760 - Virtual machine (vm) migration between processor architectures: A system and method for performing a VM migration which manages a cluster of machines in a pool for live migration to the same feature set or behavior. In certain embodiments, machines within the pool can be configured to emulate a certain feature set to enable a VM migration amongst... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090070764 - Handling queues associated with web services of business processes: A method and apparatus for handling queues associated with web services of a business process. The method may include automatically generating deployment descriptors for executing a business process as a web application, and determining a default queue for the business process using a business process management (BPM) configuration file. During... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090070763 - Method and system for characterizing elements of a print production queuing model: Methods and systems for characterizing performance of resources in a production environment are disclosed. Timing information for a plurality of print jobs may be received at a resource characterization system from one or more resources. A service time distribution may be determined based on the timing information. Resource performance for... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090070762 - System and method for event-driven scheduling of computing jobs on a multi-threaded machine using delay-costs: A computer system includes N multi-threaded processors and an operating system. The N multi-threaded processors each have O hardware threads forming a pool of P hardware threads, where N, O, and P are positive integers and P is equal to N times O. The operating system includes a scheduler which... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090070765 - Xml-based configuration for event processing networks: An event server running an event driven application implementing an event processing network the event processing network can include at least one processor to implement a rule an at least one input stream. Priority for parts of the event processing network can be settable by a user.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090070767 - Determining desired job plan based on previous inquiries in a stream processing framework: A data stream processing system is provided that utilizes independent sites to process user-defined inquires over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A mechanism is provided for processing these inquiries over the continuous streams of data by matching new inquiries to previously submitted inquiries. The job plans containing sets of processing... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090070766 - Dynamic workload balancing in a thread pool: Provided are techniques for workload balancing. A message is received on a channel. A thread in a thread pool is selected to process the message. In response to determining that the message has been processed and a response has been sent on the channel by the thread, it is determined... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090070770 - Ordering provisioning request execution based on service level agreement and customer entitlement: o

20090070769 - Processing system having resource partitioning: A processing system includes a resource that is accessible by a processor and resource partitioning software executable by the processor. The resource partitioning software may be executed to establish a resource partition for the resource. The resource partition defines a set of rules that are used to control access to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090070768 - System and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation: A system and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation is presented. A test case generator organizes processor resources into resource pools using a resource pool mask. Next, the test case generator separates instructions into instruction pools based upon the resources that each... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090070771 - Method and system for evaluating virtualized environments: A system and method are provided for incorporating compatibility analytics and virtualization rule sets into a transformational physical to virtual (P2V) analysis for designing a virtual environment from an existing physical environment and for ongoing management of the virtual environment to refine the virtualization design to accommodate changing requirements and... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20090070773 - Method for efficient thread usage for hierarchically structured tasks: A system and method for dividing complex tasks into sub-tasks for the purpose of improving performance in completing the task. Sub-tasks are arranged hierarchically and if a sub-task is unable to obtain a thread for execution it is executed in the thread of the parent task. Should a thread become... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090070772 - Multiprocessor system: In case of a task scheduling processing that assigns plural divided execution program tasks to plural processor units, a multiprocessor system using SOI/MOS transistors employs two processes; one process is to determine an order to execute those tasks so as to reduce the program execution time and the other process... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090070774 - Live lock free priority scheme for memory transactions in transactional memory: A method and apparatus for avoiding live-lock during transaction execution is herein described. Counting logic is utilized to track successfully committed transactions for each processing element. When a data conflict is detected between transactions on multiple processing elements, priority is provided to the processing element with the lower counting logic... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090064138 - Apparatus, system, and method for gathering transaction statistics data for delivering transaction statistics data as java objects via jmx notification: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for gathering transaction statistics data for a real time transaction system that delegates data persistence of the transaction statistics data to one or more clients by utilizing a JMX notification system. Specifically, transaction statistics data is collected in real time for each transaction... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090064137 - Method and apparatus for determining a service cluster topology based on static analysis: The service assignment tool analyzes a service to determine whether the service can execute on a cluster. If the service cannot execute on a cluster, the service is assigned to a single virtual machine. The service assignment tool identifies non-cluster friendly services by performing a static analysis on the bytecode... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090064136 - Utilizing system configuration information to determine a data migration order: Methods, systems and computer program products for utilizing system configuration information to determine a data migration order. The method includes computer instructions for establishing communication from a source virtual machine to a target virtual machine, the source virtual machine including a memory. The configuration information associated with the source virtual... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090064144 - Community boundaries in a geo-spatial environment: A method and system of community boundaries in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of organizing a community network includes obtaining a location on a geo-spatial map, determining a representative in the community network associated with the location, obtaining a community boundary selection associated with a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090064145 - Computer system and method for activating basic program therein: A computer system capable of executing a basic program for providing a program execution environment. The system has a storage device for storing data that is necessary to the basic program during startup, and, for each basic program, configuration data that indicates information relating to data necessary during startup. In... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090064141 - Efficient utilization of transactions in computing tasks: A method of performing a computing transaction is disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, during performance of a transaction, if an operation in a transaction can currently be performed, then a result for the operation is received from a transaction system. On the other hand, if the operation in the transaction... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090064146 - Instruction generating apparatus, document processing system and computer readable medium: An instruction generating apparatus includes a receiving section and a generating section. The receiving section receives job information including a plurality of jobs determined in a given order. Each job includes a process of a document by a processing device. The generating section generates instruction information based on the job... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090064142 - Intelligent retry method using remote shell: Method for issuing and monitoring a remote batch job, method for processing a batch job, and system for processing a remote batch job. The method for issuing and monitoring a remote batch job includes formatting a command to be sent to a remote server to include a sequence identification composed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090064139 - Method for data processing using a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture: A method is provided for implementing a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture. In order to implement a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture, a plurality of processors are coupled to one another to create a plurality of processor books. The plurality of processor books are coupled together to create a plurality of supernodes.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064143 - Subscribing to progress indicator treshold: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a notification to a user about the progress of a task running on a digital processing device. A user input identifying a progress indicator for the task running on the digital processing device is received. A user... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090064140 - System and method for providing a fully non-blocking switch in a supernode of a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for transmitting data from a first processor of a data processing system to a second processor of the data processing system. In one or more switches, a set of virtual channels is created, the one or more switches comprising, for each... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064149 - Latency coverage and adoption to multiprocessor test generator template creation: A multi-core multi-node processor system has a plurality of multiprocessor nodes, each including a plurality of microprocessor cores. The plurality of microprocessor nodes and cores are connected and form a transactional communication network. The multi-core multi-node processor system has further one or more buffer units collecting transaction data relating to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090064148 - Linking transactions with separate systems: Methods and apparatuses enable linking stateful transactions with multiple separate systems. The first and second stateful transactions are associated with a transaction identifier. Real time data from each of the multiple systems is concurrently presented within a single operation context to provide a transparent user experience. Context data may be... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090064150 - Process manager: A process manager (36) comprises a process data memory (44), and a process processing unit (38), capable of causing a process code to be executed in interaction with a designated part of this memory. The processing unit (38) is capable of establishing a super-process associated with a designated part of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090064147 - Transaction aggregation to increase transaction processing throughout: Provided are techniques for increasing transaction processing throughput. A transaction item with a message identifier and a session identifier is obtained. The transaction item is added to an earliest aggregated transaction in a list of aggregated transactions in which no other transaction item as the same session identifier. A first... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090064151 - Method for integrating job execution scheduling, data transfer and data replication in distributed grids: Scheduling of job execution, data transfers, and data replications in a distributed grid topology are integrated. Requests for job execution for a batch of jobs are received, along with a set of job requirements. The set of job requirements includes data objects needed for executing the jobs, computing resources needed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090064152 - Systems, methods and computer products for cross-thread scheduling: Systems, methods and computer products for cross-thread scheduling. Exemplary embodiments include a cross thread scheduling method for compiling code, the method including scheduling a scheduling unit with a scheduler sub-operation in response to the scheduling unit being in a non-multithreaded part of the code and scheduling the scheduling unit with... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090064153 - Command selection method and its apparatus, command throw method and its apparatus: When selecting one command within a processor from a plurality of command queues vested with order of priority, the order of priority assigned to the plurality of command queues is dynamically changed so as to select a command, on a priority basis, from a command queue vested with a higher... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090064154 - Image reconstruction system with multiple parallel reconstruction pipelines: In a method, system, computer-readable medium and watchdog module to control a number of medical technology processes that are executed in multiple computerized pipelines according to a predetermined organizational structure, a priority is associated with an incoming process, with a high priority and multiple low priorities being provided. A process... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090064155 - Task manager and method for managing tasks of an information system: Information about a device may be emotively conveyed to a user of the device. Input indicative of an operating state of the device may be received. The input may be transformed into data representing a simulated emotional state. Data representing an avatar that expresses the simulated emotional state may be... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20090064157 - Asynchronous data structure pull application programming interface (api) for stream systems: Provided are techniques for processing data items. A limit on the number of dequeue operations allowed in a current step of processing for a queue-like data structure is set, wherein the number of allowed dequeue operations limit at least one of an amount of CPU resources and an amount of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090064156 - Computer program product and method for capacity sizing virtualized environments: A computer system determines an optimal hardware system environment for a given set of workloads by allocating functionality from each workload to logical partitions, where each logical partition includes resource demands, assigning a priority weight factor to each resource demand, configuring potential hardware system environments, where each potential hardware system... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090064161 - Device allocation utilizing job information, storage system with a spin control function, and computer thereof: This invention provides a storage system coupled to a computer that executes data processing jobs by running a program, comprising: an interface; a storage controller; and disk drives. The storage controller is configured to: control spinning of disk in the disk drives; receive job information which contains an execution order... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090064163 - Mechanisms for creation/deletion of linear block address table entries for direct i/o: The present invention provides mechanisms that enable application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I/O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. In one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided for handling user space creation and deletion operations... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064158 - Multi-core resource utilization planning: Techniques for multi-core resource utilization planning are provided. An agent is deployed on each core of a multi-core machine. The agents cooperate to perform one or more tests. The tests result in measurements for performance and thermal characteristics of each core and each communication fabric between the cores. The measurements... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090064162 - Resource tracking method and apparatus: The present invention is directed to a parallel processing infrastructure, which enables the robust design of task scheduler(s) and communication primitive(s). This is achieved, in one embodiment of the present invention, by decomposing the general problem of exploiting parallelism into three parts. First, an infrastructure is provided to track resources.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090064159 - System and method for optimizing load distribution across logical and physical resources in a storage system: An apparatus, system and method to optimize load distribution across logical and physical resources in a storage system. An apparatus in accordance with the invention may include an availability module and an allocation module. The availability module may dynamically assign values to resources in a hierarchical tree structure. Each value... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090064160 - Transparent lazy maintenance of indexes and materialized views: Described herein is a materialized view or index maintenance system that includes a task generator component that receives an indication that an update transaction has committed against a base table in a database system. The task generator component, in response to the update transaction being received, generates a maintenance task... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090064170 - Communication apparatus and method for controlling communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes a control unit including a controller configured to control the communication apparatus, a first communication unit configured to perform communication under control of the controller, and a second communication unit including a subcontrol unit and configured to perform communication under control of the subcontrol unit, wherein... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090064165 - Method for hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface tasks: A method for providing hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface (MPI) tasks are provided. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors executing tasks of an MPI job are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064164 - Method of virtualization and os-level thermal management and multithreaded processor with virtualization and os-level thermal management: A program product and method of managing task execution on an integrated circuit chip such as a chip-level multiprocessor (CMP) with Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT). Multiple chip operating units or cores have chip sensors (temperature sensors or counters) for monitoring temperature in units. Task execution is monitored for hot tasks and... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20090064166 - System and method for hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface tasks: A system and method for providing hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface (MPI) tasks are provided. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors executing tasks of an MPI job are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064168 - System and method for hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface tasks by modifying tasks: A system and method are provided for providing hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface (MPI) tasks by modifying tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors executing tasks of an MPI job are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064167 - System and method for performing setup operations for receiving different amounts of data while processors are performing message passing interface tasks: A system and method are provided for performing setup operations for receiving a different amount of data while processors are performing message passing interface (MPI) tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090064169 - System and method for sensor scheduling: A system for sensor scheduling includes a plurality of sensors operable to perform one or more tasks and a processor operable to receive one or more missions and one or more environmental conditions associated with a respective mission. Each mission may include one or more tasks to be performed by... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090064172 - System and method for task scheduling: A computer-based method for task scheduling is disclosed. The method includes: scheduling one or more scheduled tasks, creating a scheduled task list which contains the one or more scheduled tasks, reading parameters of each of the scheduled tasks, comparing the current tasks in the memory with the scheduled tasks in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090064171 - Updating workflow nodes in a workflow: Provided a method, system, and article of manufacture for updating workflow nodes in a workflow. A workflow program processes user input at one node in a workflow comprised of nodes and workflow paths connecting the nodes, wherein the user provides user input to traverse through at least one workflow path... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54