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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control April category listing, related patent applications 04/12

20120102487 - Creating and deploying service-ready virtual hard disks: A cloud manager controls the deployment and management of machines for an online service. A build system creates deployment-ready virtual hard disks (VHDs) that are installed on machines that are spread across one or more networks in farms that each may include different configurations. The build system is configured to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120102489 - Entitlement lifecycle management in a resource management system: An entitlement management system is described herein that models each entitlement as a resource within a resource management system. In a resource management system that applies policy to all requests to create, update, and delete a resource, this approach allows rich application of policy to the creation, delegation, renewal, expiration,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120102492 - Power supply and control method thereof: A power supply for feeding power to a computer comprises an instruction acquisition unit configured to acquire an identifier of a virtual machine and an instruction for the virtual machine, the virtual machine being run in emulation by a virtual host executed on the computer; and a virtual machine management... Agent: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.

20120102488 - Profiling input / output operations: Implementations of the present disclosure provide methods including executing a virtual machine configured to execute a plurality of applications and perform a plurality of I/O operations; storing meta information for a first I/O operation performed by the virtual machine in an I/O information holder for the virtual machine; receiving a... Agent: Sap Ag

20120102490 - Retaining ownership of a virtual function while an adapter is replaced: In an embodiment, a power off command is received that specifies a slot in a computer that connects to a first adapter. The first adapter comprises a physical and virtual functions. Data transfer from a logical partition to the virtual function is stopped, a lock of the virtual function held... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120102491 - Virtual function boot in single-root and multi-root i/o virtualization environments: A method for virtual function boot in a system including a single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) enabled server includes loading a PF driver of the PF of a storage adapter onto the server utilizing the virtual machine manager of the server; creating a plurality of virtual functions utilizing the PF driver,... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120102493 - Ordered scheduling of suspended processes based on resumption events: A method includes receiving a plurality of resumption events associated with a plurality of suspended processes. Each resumption event is associated with a suspended process. Each resumption event also includes an execution time and a resumption time window. The method includes determining resumption deadlines for the suspended processes and determining... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120102494 - Managing networks and machines for an online service: A cloud manager assists in deploying and managing networks for an online service. The cloud manager system receives requests to perform operations relating to configuring, updating and performing tasks in networks that are used in providing the online service. The management of the assets may comprise deploying machines, updating machines,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120102496 - Reconfigurable processor and method for processing a nested loop: A reconfigurable processor which merges an inner loop and an outer loop which are included in a nested loop and allocates the merged loop to processing elements in parallel, thereby reducing processing time to process the nested loop. The reconfigurable processor may extract loop execution frequency information from the inner... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120102495 - Resource management in a multi-operating environment: A method for providing user access to telephony operations in a multi operating environment having memory resources nearly depleted that include determining whether a predetermined first memory threshold of a computing environment has been reached and displaying a user interface corresponding to memory usage; and determining whether a predetermined second... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120102497 - Mobile computing device activity manager: A system and a method are disclosed for an activity manager providing a centralized component for allocating resources of a mobile computing device among various activities. An activity represents work performed using computing device resources, such as processor time, memory, storage device space or network connections. An application or system... Agent:

20120102500 - Numa aware system task management: Task management in a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture having multiple processor cores is aware of the NUMA topology in task management. As a result memory access penalties are reduced. Each processor is assigned to a zone allocated to a memory controller. The zone assignment is based on a cost... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120102499 - Optimizing the performance of hybrid cpu systems based upon the thread type of applications to be run on the cpus: A hybrid CPU system wherein the plurality of processors forming the hybrid system are initially undifferentiated by type or class. Responsive to the sampling of the threads of a received and loaded computer application to be executed, the function of at least one of the processors is changed so that... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120102498 - Resource management using environments: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive time-based reservation requests for predefined resource environments comprising resource types that include hardware, software, and data, among others. Additional activities may include detecting a conflict between at least one of the resource types in a first one of the predefined resource environments... Agent: Hcl America Inc.

20120102501 - Adaptive queuing methodology for system task management: A task management methodology for system having multiple processors and task queues adapts a queuing topology by monitoring a queue pressure and adjusting the queue topology from a selection of at least two different queue topologies. The queue pressure may be periodically monitored and queues with different granularities selected. The... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120096460 - Apparatus and method for controlling live-migrations of a plurality of virtual machines: There is provided an apparatus and method for executing live-migrations concurrently on a plurality of virtual machines. Resource-usage state information is acquired from each of the plurality of virtual machines when a first live migration of a first virtual machine is started. A correlation factor indicating a degree of correlation... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120096462 - Dynamic virtualization technique for multicore processor system: Disclosed is a method of allocating OS resources in a multicore processor system, including: setting a common operating system (OS) layer serving to process a common resource; setting a partitioned OS layer allocating one or more partitioned OSs to each of multiple cores; and reallocating the partitioned OSs allocated to... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120096461 - Load balancing in multi-server virtual workplace environments: Virtual workplace server software may perform load balancing functionality in a multi-server desktop virtualization system. One or more virtualization servers may receive and maintain common state information for the desktop virtualization system, and may independently execute one or more load balancing functions based on the common state information. Each server... Agent: Citrix Systems, Inc.

20120096458 - Method and system for synchronizing fault-tolerant virtual machines: Primary and secondary virtual machines each executing on a separate physical host and forming a fault-tolerant pair synchronize their execution with each other as closely as possible such that the secondary can take over execution of the primary with little or no disruption of service and no loss of data.... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20120096459 - Method of migrating virtual machine: A method of migrating a virtual machine from a first computer to a second computer includes: performing an external communication of the virtual machine via a first buffer before starting migration of the virtual machine, performing an external communication of the virtual machine via a second buffer different from the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120096457 - System, method and computer program product for preprovisioning virtual machines: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for preprovisioning virtual machines is disclosed. The method includes analyzing requests for a plurality of different virtual machine (VM) configurations where each VM configuration has a plurality of configuration attributes. The method also includes determining a request frequency... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096465 - Image forming apparatus, log management method, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus includes application programs that generate logs, an interface information storing unit configured to store interface information for the respective application programs, and a log management unit. The interface information is used to obtain the logs generated by the corresponding application programs. The log management unit is... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20120096464 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes an application and functional modules configured to collaborate with each other to provide an application function of the application. Each of the functional modules operates as a requester that requests a provider function and a provider that provides the provider function requested by the requester.... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20120096463 - System and method for integrated workflow scaling: A system is provided. The system comprises a first computer located in a first plant, a first memory, and a first object based process management application stored in the first memory. The system further comprises a second computer located in a location separate from the first plant, a second memory,... Agent: Invensys Systems Inc.

20120096466 - Method, system and program for deadline constrained task admission control and scheduling using genetic approach: Disclosed is an admission control and scheduling method of deadline constrained tasks. The method comprises: buffering new arriving tasks into a waiting queue; pre-scheduling a new task and a previously admitted task; producing multiple pre-schedules; using the most feasible pre-schedule as an executive schedule; and dispatching the tasks in the... Agent:

20120096467 - Microprocessor operation monitoring system: A microprocessor operation monitoring system whose own tasks are constituted by associating beforehand the task number of the task that is next to be started up, for each of the tasks constituting the program, and abnormality of microprocessor operation is detected by comparing and determining whether or not the announced... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120096471 - Apparatus and method for executing components based on thread pool: An apparatus for executing components based on a thread pool includes a component executor configured to have a set priority and period, to register components having the set priority and period, and to execute the registered components. Further, the apparatus for executing the components based on the thread pool includes... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120096468 - Compute cluster with balanced resources: A scheduler for a compute cluster that allocates computing resources to jobs to achieve a balanced distribution. The balanced distribution maximizes the number of executing jobs to provide fast response times for all jobs by, to the extent possible, assigning a designated minimum for each job. If necessary to achieve... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120096470 - Prioritizing jobs within a cloud computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach to prioritize jobs (e.g., within a cloud computing environment) so as to maximize positive financial impacts (or to minimize negative financial impacts) for cloud service providers, while not exceeding processing capacity or failing to meet terms of applicable Service Level Agreements (SLAs).... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096469 - Systems and methods for dynamically scanning a plurality of active ports for work: Systems and methods for scanning ports for work are provided. One system includes one or more processors, multiple ports, a first tracking mechanism, and a second tracking mechanism for tracking high priority work and low priority work, respectively. The processor(s) is/are configured to perform the below method. One method includes... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096472 - Virtual queue processing circuit and task processor: A queue control circuit controls the placement and retrieval of a plurality of tasks in a plurality of types of virtual queues. State registers are associated with respective tasks. Each of the state registers stores a task priority order, a queue ID of a virtual queue, and the order of... Agent: Netcleus Systems Corporation

20120096473 - Memory maximization in a high input/output virtual machine environment: A computer implemented method is provided, including monitoring the utilization of resources available within a compute node, wherein the resources include an input/output capacity, a processor capacity, and a memory capacity. The method further comprises allocating virtual machines to the compute node to maximize use of a first one of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096474 - Systems and methods for performing multi-program general purpose shader kickoff: Systems and methods for thread group kickoff and thread synchronization are described. One method is directed to synchronizing a plurality of threads in a general purpose shader in a graphics processor. The method comprises determining an entry point for execution of the threads in the general purpose shader, performing a... Agent: Via Technologies, Inc.

20120089980 - Allocating virtual machines according to user-specific virtual machine metrics: The performance monitoring system allocates virtual machines to users or user sessions according to a user categorization that is determine using user session information and virtual machine metrics. A session monitor of the performance monitoring system is notified that a user session terminated, where the user session accessed a virtual... Agent:

20120089981 - Method and system for power management in a virtual machine environment without disrupting network connectivity: A method for power management. The method includes gathering resource usage data for a first blade and a second blade on a blade chassis, migrating each virtual machine (VM) executing on the first blade to the second blade based on the resource usage data and a first migration policy, wherein... Agent: Oracle America Inc.

20120089979 - Performance monitor design for counting events generated by thread groups: A number of hypervisor register fields are set to specify which processor cores are allowed to generate a number of performance events for a particular thread group. A plurality of threads for an application running in the computing environment to a plurality of thread groups are configured by a plurality... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120089982 - Supporting heterogeneous virtualization: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a virtual machine monitor of a computer platform may comprise a service virtual machine created by the virtual machine monitor partitioning an underlying hardware machine to support execution of a plurality of overlying guest operating systems, wherein the plurality... Agent:

20120089983 - Assessing process deployment: System and methods for assessing process deployment are described. In one implementation, the method includes collecting at least one metric value associated with at least one operating unit within an organization. Further, the method describes normalizing the at least one collected metric value to a common scale to obtain normalized... Agent: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

20120089984 - Performance monitor design for instruction profiling using shared counters: Counter registers are shared among multiple threads executing on multiple processor cores. An event within the processor core is selected. A multiplexer in front of each of a number of counters is configured to route the event to a counter. A number of counters are assigned for the event to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120089985 - Sharing sampled instruction address registers for efficient instruction sampling in massively multithreaded processors: Sampled instruction address registers are shared among multiple threads executing on a plurality of processor cores. Each of a plurality of sampled instruction address registers are assigned to a particular thread running for an application on the plurality of processor cores. Each of the sampled instruction address registers are configured... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120089986 - Process pool of empty application hosts to improve user perceived launch time of applications: Various embodiments enable a device to create a pool of at least one empty application. An empty application can be configured to contain resources that are common across one or more other applications and initialize the resources for the one or more other applications effective to reduce startup time of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084778 - Managing execution of mixed workloads in a simultaneous multi-threaded (smt) enabled system: A kernel of a SMT enabled processor system facilitates construction of an exclusive set of processors to simulate an ST mode for handling the tasks of the ST workload, wherein the ST workload runs more efficiently on single threaded processors. The kernel schedules the ST workload on the exclusive set... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084774 - Techniques for load balancing gpu enabled virtual machines: Exemplary techniques for balancing 3D graphical processor unit use among virtual machines are herein disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtualization platform can load an instance of a graphics rendering module for a virtual machine; select a GPU for the graphics rendering module to run on; and configure the virtual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084775 - Techniques for streaming virtual machines from a server to a host: Techniques for configuring a commodity server to host virtual hard disks are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtual hard disk file can be split into a plurality of differencing VHD files and one or more of the files can be downloaded to a virtualization host as it runs... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084777 - Virtual machine and/or multi-level scheduling support on systems with asymmetric processor cores: Different processor cores in a computing device can support different features. In one or more embodiments, the features supported by each of multiple physical processor cores of a computing device are identified. A set of one or more features of the multiple physical processor cores to make available to virtual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084776 - Virtual machine stage detection: A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for categorizing a virtual machine stage. A data processing system starts a virtual machine. It sets factor-stage ranges, wherein for each combination factor and stage, a corresponding range is present, and wherein each range is as broad as a reset range.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084781 - Job distribution processing system, information processing device and computer-readable medium: An information processing device includes an image forming device, an execution sub-job determining unit, a sub-job execution destination determining unit and an execution instructing unit. The image forming device is designated as a destination and executes at least a sub-job executed N-th as the last sub-job out of N sub-jobs... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20120084780 - Mechanism for customized monitoring of system activities: A mechanism for performing monitoring system activities using a performance monitor. A method of embodiments of the invention includes identifying a plurality of monitoring tools to monitor activities of a plurality of system components at the computer system, and each monitoring tool monitors activities of at least one system component... Agent:

20120084779 - Tracking requests that flow between subsystems: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking requests that flow between subsystems. Embodiments of the invention facilitate following a user interaction/transaction from the point of entry through any subsystems that are called until the interaction/transaction is fulfilled. Generated information (e.g., log data) regarding a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084783 - Automated operation list generation device, method and program: Selection of operations in a desired order and, as necessary, input of processing parameters by the user are received. Based on each operation corresponding to the received input, operation information, which classifies the operation corresponding to the input into a non-routine operation, which requires input of a processing parameter during... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20120084782 - Method and apparatus for efficient memory replication for high availability (ha) protection of a virtual machine (vm): High availability (HA) protection is provided for an executing virtual machine. At a checkpoint in the HA process, the active server suspends the virtual machine; and the active server copies dirty memory pages to a buffer. During the suspension of the virtual machine on the active host server, dirty memory... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20120084784 - System and method for managing memory resource(s) of a wireless handheld computing device: A method and system for managing one or more memory resources of a wireless handheld computing device is described. The method and system may include receiving a request to initiate a web browser module and receiving input for a web address. The method and system may also include receiving a... Agent:

20120084787 - Apparatus and method for controlling a resource utilization policy in a virtual environment: An apparatus and method for controlling a resource utilization policy in a virtual environment are provided. The apparatus may increase network throughput by dynamically adjusting the resource utilization policies of a driver domain that can directly access a shared device, and a guest driver that cannot directly access the shared... Agent:

20120084786 - Job executing system, job executing device and computer-readable medium: An image forming device includes a monitoring service performing unit and a service process performing instructing unit. The monitoring service performing unit acquires operation state information including index data that represents a service processing function mounted in the corresponding server and an operation state of the corresponding server from each... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20120084785 - Resource reservation: Technologies are generally described for systems and methods for requesting a reservation between a first and a second processor. In some examples, the method includes receiving a reservation request at the second processor from the first processor. The reservation request may include an identification of a resource in communication with... Agent: Empire Technology Development LLC

20120084788 - Complex event distributing apparatus, complex event distributing method, and complex event distributing program: A server calculates correlations between complex event processing processes performed by virtual machines (VMs) so as to detect events from streams using condition expressions for identifying the events. The server obtains the load status of each of the VMs. The server then detects a VM having a processing load exceeding... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120084789 - System and method for optimizing the evaluation of task dependency graphs: One embodiment of the present invention is a technique for optimizing a task graph that specifies multiple tasks and the dependencies between the specified tasks. When optimizing the task graph, the optimization engine performs multiple iterations of runtime optimization operations on the task graph. At each iteration, an optimized task... Agent:

20120084790 - Scheduling threads in a processor: Guiding OS thread scheduling in multi-core and/or multi-threaded microprocessors by: determining, for each thread among the active threads, the power consumed by each instruction type associated with an instruction executed by the thread during the last context switch interval; determining for each thread among the active threads, the power consumption... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation