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

20130125124 - Apparatus and method for segregating tenant specific data when using mpls in openflow-enabled cloud computing: A tenant database is used to add tenant ID information to the cloud network manager (CNM) address mapping table to isolate tenant specific data to a tenant ID to the CNM. The CNM maintains a mapping among a plurality of items in a plurality of databases or tables. The plurality... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130125114 - Computational asset identification without predetermined identifiers: Embodiments allow management software applications to distinguish computational assets without the use of static, predetermined identifiers that are susceptible to duplication along with computational assets. Managers and computational assets are associated with authenticator values. Additionally, a manager and computational asset determine (e.g., negotiate) an expected nonce (number used once) to... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130125125 - Computer system and offloading method in computer system: A computer system has: a virtual machine operating on a physical machine; and a management block operating on the physical machine and managing the virtual machine. The virtual machine has a specific function processing module that performs specific function processing with respect to a packet for transmission and a received... Agent:

20130125112 - Dynamic policy based interface configuration for virtualized environments: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving static profiles each comprising one or more properties of an operating environment, receiving a dynamic profile for identifying a configuration of an interface based on the static profile associated with said dynamic profile, associating the dynamic profile with one of the static profiles... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130125117 - Method and arrangement for using a resource of a hardware platform with at least two virtual machines: A method and arrangement for using a resource of a hardware platform with at least two virtual machines, wherein a virtualization controller for administering the virtual machines executes on the hardware platform, a first machine of the virtual machines with a first operating system executes separately on a first processor... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130125116 - Method and device for adjusting virtual resource and computer readable storage medium: A method for adjusting a virtual resource used in a virtual system is provided. The method comprises the following steps. At least one virtual machine is provided in the virtual system, and the at least one virtual machine has maximum and minimum thresholds of I/O (Input/Output) loading and maximum and... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20130125121 - Method and system for virtual machine migration: Virtual machine (VM) technology allows multiple operating systems each deploying multiple applications to run on a single host. This invention presents an effective method and system for virtual machine migration from a source host to a target host. The method and system concern the migration of both the service VM... Agent: Embotics Corporation

20130125118 - Method and virtualization software for providing independent time sources for virtual runtime environments: A method and virtualization software for providing at least two mutually independent time sources for at least one real-time operating system of a data processing device including virtual runtime environments, where a general-purpose operating system runs in one virtual runtime environment, and the virtual runtime environments are managed by virtualization... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130125120 - Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes: A controller of a network control system for configuring several middlebox instances is described. The middlebox instances implement a middlebox in a distributed manner in several hosts. The controller configures, in a first host, a first middlebox instance to receive a notification from a migration module before a virtual machine... Agent: Nicira, Inc.

20130125113 - Pairing physical devices to virtual devices to create an immersive environment: Pairing physical devices to virtual devices to create an immersive environment, including: identifying, by a device pairing module, a virtual device in a virtual environment; identifying, by the device pairing module, a physical device in a physical environment; and pairing, by the device pairing module, the virtual device in the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130125115 - Policy enforcement by hypervisor paravirtualized ring copying: Methods and systems for executing a request between a virtual machine and a paravirtualized machine are provided. The request is received from the virtual machine at a first shared memory of a hypervisor. The first shared memory is accessible to the virtual machine but not the paravirtualized machine. The request... Agent:

20130125119 - Regulating access to and protecting portions of applications of virtual machines: Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described herein for a virtual machine manager, wherein the virtual machine manager is configured to selectively employ different views with different permissions to map guest physical memory of a virtual machine of the apparatus to host physical memory of the... Agent:

20130125122 - System and method for using local storage to emulate centralized storage: Methods and systems for utilizing local storage of host computers to emulate a centralized storage system comprise receiving a write operation from a virtual machine running on a first host computer, wherein the write operation corresponds to a disk image that is locally stored in a first host computer. The... Agent: Vmware, Inc,

20130125123 - System and method to enable power related decisions in a virtualization environment: An information handling system includes a first power detector that detects a first power level of the information handling system, a second power detector that detects a second power level of the information handling system, and a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager is operable to receive the first... Agent: Dell Products, Lp

20130125126 - Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a user interface, a switching unit, and a computer. The user interface is for a user that operates a first processing unit that runs a first operating system or a second processing unit that runs a second operating system. The switching unit selectively switches between... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130125128 - Realizing jumps in an executing process instance: A method for realizing jumps in an executing process instance can be provided. The method can include suspending an executing process instance, determining a current wavefront for the process instance and computing both a positive wavefront difference for a jump target relative to the current wavefront and also a negative... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130125127 - Task backpressure and deletion in a multi-flow network processor architecture: Described embodiments generate tasks corresponding to packets received by a network processor. A source processing module sends task messages including a task identifier and a task size to a destination processing module. The destination module receives the task message and determines a queue in which to store the task. Based... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20130125130 - Conserving power through work load estimation for a portable computing device using scheduled resource set transitions: A start time to begin transitioning resources to states indicated in the second resource state set is scheduled based upon an estimated amount of processing time to complete transitioning the resources. At a scheduled start time, a process starts in which the states of one or more resources are switched... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130125129 - Growing high performance computing jobs: The preemption of running jobs by other running or queued jobs in a system that has processing resources. The system has running jobs, and queued jobs that are awaiting processing by the system. In a scheduling operation, preemptor jobs are identified, the preemptor jobs being jobs that are candidates for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130125132 - Information processing apparatus and control method: An information processing apparatus includes plural CPUs to operate in parallel, a logical CPU generating part to generate one or more logical CPUs from one of the CPUs, an operating frequency averaging part to change each of operating frequencies of the CPUs to match a mean of the operating frequencies,... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130125131 - Multi-core processor system, thread control method, and computer product: A multi-core processor system includes a first core configured to detect a state where a first thread that is allocated to a first core and a second thread that is allocated to a second core access a common resource; calculate, upon detecting the state and based on a first cycle... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130125133 - System and method for load balancing of fully strict thread-level parallel programs: A system and method for executing fully strict thread-level parallel programs and performing load balancing between concurrently executing threads may allow threads to efficiently distribute work among themselves. A parent function of a thread may spawn children on one or more processors, pushing a stack frame onto a deque, then... Agent:

20130125134 - System and control method: If a specific task is to perform a process at the time of processing a specific job, the specific task performs a process specified in the specific task by accessing a third party system using a stored access token and receiving a third party service.... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130117743 - Instruction-set support for invocation of vmm-configured services without vmm intervention: A processing core comprising instruction execution logic circuitry and register space. The register space to be loaded from a VMCS, commensurate with a VM entry, with information indicating whether a service provided by the processing core on behalf of the VMM is enabled. The instruction execution logic to, in response... Agent:

20130117744 - Methods and apparatus for providing hypervisor-level acceleration and virtualization services: Systems and methods for maintaining cache synchronization in network of cross-host multi-hypervisor systems, wherein each host has least one virtual server in communication with a virtual disk, an adaptation layer, a cache layer governing a cache and a virtualization and acceleration server to manage volume snapshot, volume replication and synchronization... Agent: Ocz Technology Group, Inc.

20130117741 - Optimization framework for remotely executing a maintenance operation on a virtual machine: Embodiments provide a system for executing a maintenance operation on a virtual machine (VM). The system includes a host computing device including a first VM and a second VM, a maintenance application installed within the first VM, and an optimization framework providing an interface to the maintenance application. The system... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130117742 - Sharing work environment information sources with personal environment applications: One or more embodiments of the invention enable an application running in a personal environment of a mobile device to access an information source registered with a guest operating system (OS) of a work environment. The personal environment is a host OS of the mobile device and the work environment... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130117745 - Virtual computer system, control method for virtual computer system, control program for virtual computer system, and integrated circuit: When a process judging unit 109 judges that a target process is a protected process 101, a key judging unit 111 judges whether a target key that is a key generated by a key generating unit 108 is a first key or a second key. When the key judging unit... Agent:

20130117746 - Replacement of virtual functions: Techniques are described for replacement of virtual functions. In one or more implementations, a call to a virtual function is intercepted and redirected to a shim module associated with a replacement function. The shim module is configured to adjust a pointer (e.g., a “this” pointer) for the virtual function. In... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117748 - Scalable group synthesis: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for scalable group synthesis receives a group definition, applies a sub-set of conditions to the group definition to form a conditioned group definition, receives a set of entities and populates group membership using the received set of entities and the conditioned group definition,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117747 - Transaction load reduction for process completion: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for reducing transaction load for process instance completion. One process includes identifying an end event triggered by an initial token of a process instance, determining a type of the end event, performing a search for additional tokens associated with the... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117751 - Compute task state encapsulation: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for encapsulating compute task state that enables out-of-order scheduling and execution of the compute tasks. The scheduling circuitry organizes the compute tasks into groups based on priority levels. The compute tasks may then be selected for execution using different scheduling... Agent:

20130117752 - Heuristics-based scheduling for data analytics: A scheduler may receive a plurality of jobs for scheduling of execution thereof on a plurality of computing nodes. An evaluation module may provide a common interface for each of a plurality of scheduling algorithms. An algorithm selector may utilize the evaluation module in conjunction with benchmark data for a... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117753 - Many-core process scheduling to maximize cache usage: A process scheduler for multi-core and many-core processors may place related executable elements that share common data on the same cores. When executed on a common core, sequential elements may store data in memory caches that are very quickly accessed, as opposed to main memory which may take many clock... Agent: Concurix Corporation

20130117750 - Method and system for workitem synchronization: Method, system, and computer program product embodiments for synchronizing workitems on one or more processors are disclosed. The embodiments include executing a barrier skip instruction by a first workitem from the group, and responsive to the executed barrier skip instruction, reconfiguring a barrier to synchronize other workitems from the group... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

20130117754 - Multi-core system and scheduling method: A multi-core system includes multiple processor cores; a bus connected to the processor cores; multiple peripheral devices accessed by the processor cores via the bus; profile information including information concerning access of the peripheral devices by each task assigned to the processor cores; a monitor that based on the profile... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117749 - Provisioning and managing an application platform: Platform management may be provided. First, a package may be received. The received package may then be separated into a plurality of deployment groups. Next, a plurality of tasks may be created for deploying the plurality of deployment groups. Then the plurality of tasks may be executed.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117755 - Apparatuses, systems, and methods for distributed workload serialization: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for processing workload requests in a distributed computing system. In general, a cooperative workload serialization system is provided that includes a Message Queue that is configured to receive and hold workload requests from a number of requestors and a Request Manager... Agent: Mckesson Financial Holdings

20130117757 - Method and apparatus for scheduling application programs: A method for scheduling an application includes receiving an execution command of at least one application; and receiving task characteristic information of I/O-BOUND and CPU-BOUND for the at least one application. Further, the method for scheduling the application includes performing scheduling for the at least one application by applying the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130117756 - Task scheduling method for real time operating system: The present invention relates to a task scheduling method for a real time operating system (RTOS) mounted to an embedded system, and more particularly, to a task scheduling method which allows a programmer to make a CPU reservation for a task. The task scheduling method for a real time operating... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130117758 - Compute work distribution reference counters: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for managing the allocation and release of resources during multi-threaded program execution. Programmable reference counters are initialized to values that limit the amount of resources for allocation to tasks that share the same reference counter. Resource parameters are specified for... Agent:

20130117759 - Network aware process scheduling: A schedule graph may be used to identify executable elements that consume data from a network interface or other input/output interface. The schedule graph may be traversed to identify a sequence or pipeline of executable elements that may be triggered from data received on the interface, then a process scheduler... Agent: Concurix Corporation

20130117760 - Software-assisted instruction level execution preemption: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for instruction level execution preemption. Preempting at the instruction level does not require any draining of the processing pipeline. No new instructions are issued and the context state is unloaded from the processing pipeline. Any in-flight instructions that follow the... Agent:

20130111471 - Compute and storage provisioning in a cloud environment: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device, resource information comprising attributes for compute and storage resources in a network, identifying a need for provisioning a virtual element, and selecting one of the compute and storage resources for use in provisioning the virtual element. Selection of the... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130111470 - Duration sensitive scheduling in a computing environment: Duration sensitive scheduling in a computing environment, the computing environment including a computer configured to support a virtual machine, including: identifying, by a duration sensitive scheduler, a processing job to be executed by the virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine includes an entitlement specification that identifies physical resources of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111475 - Fast determination of compatibility of virtual machines and hosts: A method of determining compatibility of a virtual machine or virtual machine disk file with a host, including a storage host, is disclosed. A lookup matrix is created to provide a fast compatibility lookup. To create the lookup matrix, computing object properties are retrieved from each of the plurality of... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130111477 - Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services: Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services are disclosed. An example method includes determining, in a pre-boot environment, supported dimensions for display of information on the display screen; generating, in the pre-boot environment, restricted dimensions that are less than the supported dimensions; providing the restricted dimensions to an operating... Agent:

20130111473 - Passive monitoring of virtual systems using extensible indexing: Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for passively monitoring a computer system. In an embodiment, an indexing agent operates on a physical server having a plurality of virtual servers. The indexing agent has a framework having a plurality of indexing layers. Each of these indexing layers is adapted... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111469 - Service provider management of virtual instances corresponding to hardware resources managed by other service providers: A dynamic pool of virtual instances is managed. Each virtual instance corresponds to one or more hardware resources. Management includes tracking for each virtual instance: historical and current utilization, an operating cost, a capacity, and a characteristic associated with a capability of the hardware resources to which the virtual instance... Agent:

20130111474 - System and method to cache hypervisor data: Systems and methods for caching data from a plurality of virtual machines are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the systems and methods may be realized as a method for caching data from a plurality of virtual machines. The method may comprise detecting, using a computer processor executing cache management... Agent: Stec, Inc.

20130111478 - Unified resource manager providing a single point of control: An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111472 - Virtual architecture generating apparatus and method, and runtime system, multi-core system and methods of operating runtime system and multi-core system: A virtual architecture generating apparatus and method, a runtime system, a multi-core system, and methods of operating the runtime system and the multi-core system may include analyzing a requirement of an application, a feature of the application, and a requirement of a system enabling an execution of the application, and... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130111468 - Virtual machine allocation in a computing on-demand system: A method and system may receive a request to provision a virtual machine based on configuration information. Potential resources for hosting the virtual machine may be identified and scored. The scored potential resources may be ranked and an optimal resource for hosting the requested virtual machine may be selected based... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130111476 - Virtual machine utility computing method and system: An analytics engine receives real-time statistics from a set of virtual machines supporting a line of business (LOB) application. The statistics relate to computing resource utilization and are used by the analytics engine to generate a prediction of demand for the LOB application in order to dynamically control the provisioning... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130111482 - Establishing a group of endpoints in a parallel computer: A parallel computer executes a number of tasks, each task includes a number of endpoints and the endpoints are configured to support collective operations. In such a parallel computer, establishing a group of endpoints receiving a user specification of a set of endpoints included in a global collection of endpoints,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111479 - Performance of scheduled tasks via behavior analysis and dynamic optimization: In a method for improving escalation performance, a computer monitors performance of an escalation in a production environment. The computer identifies a characteristic of the escalation based on the monitored performance. The computer creates a recommendation for improving escalation performance based on the characteristic. In response to an approval of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111481 - Programmatic identification of root method: Embodiments relate to a computer implemented process, system and program product for identification of a root method for a thread. In one aspect of the embodiment the process includes instrumenting code to form instrumented code and creating stack sample data. It also includes creating method stack sample data in a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111480 - Smart task tracking: Embodiments of the invention relate to dynamic creation and tracking of one or more tasks. Each task has one or more properties that define the task. Activities are monitored in real-time, and one or more tasks associated with the monitored activity are placed in a queue. Progress of the queued... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111486 - Apparatus and method for exclusive control: An apparatus performs a plurality of processes, and determines content of I/O processing requested by an I/O processing request that has been issued, by one of the plurality of processes, to access common resources including a plurality of devices shared by the plurality of processes. The apparatus causes the I/O... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130111483 - Authoring and using personalized workflows: A workflow authoring system receives a request from a user identifying a task, wherein the task includes various task components. The system selects a plurality of services in response to the user's request to generate one or more service options. The workflow authoring system identifies one or more parameters associated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111484 - Identifying and correcting hanging scheduled tasks: In a method for processing work items that have not been completed by a first escalation, a computer determines that the first escalation failed to complete execution, processed fewer work items than the first escalation is configured to process, or completed execution beyond an allotted processing time. The computer duplicates... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111485 - Network architecture and protocol for cluster of lithography machines: A clustered substrate processing system comprising one or more lithography elements, each lithography element arranged for independent exposure of substrates according to pattern data. Each lithography element comprises a plurality of lithography subsystems, a control network arranged for communication of control information between the lithography subsystems and at least one... Agent: Mapper LithographyIPB.v.

20130111487 - Service orchestration for intelligent automated assistant: Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A user request is received, the user request including at least a speech input received from the user. The user request is processed to obtain a representation of user intent, where the representation of... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130111489 - Entitlement vector for managing resource allocation: An embodiment or embodiments of an information handling apparatus can use an entitlement vector to simultaneously manage and activate entitlement of objects and processes to various resources independently from one another. An information handling apparatus can comprise an entitlement vector operable to specify resources used by at least one object... Agent:

20130111488 - Task assignment using ranking support vector machines: A method of ranking workers for an incoming task includes recording a list of completed tasks in a computer data structure, extracting first attributes from the list for the tasks that were completed during a pre-determined period, generating a first feature vector for each task and worker from the first... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111493 - Dynamically splitting jobs across multiple agnostic processors in wireless system: Dynamically splitting a job in wireless system between a processor other remote devices may involve evaluating a job that a wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may be requested to perform. The job may be made of one or more tasks. The WMC device may evaluate by determining the availability of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130111491 - Entitlement vector with resource and/or capabilities fields: An embodiment or embodiments of an information handling apparatus are adapted to facilitate resource allocation using an entitlement vector comprising multiple fields that are respectively directed to multiple different resources or capabilities. In illustrative embodiments, an information handling apparatus can comprise an entitlement vector configured with a plurality of bit... Agent:

20130111492 - Information processing system, and its power-saving control method and device: Pieces of working information on workloads, positions of the workloads, pieces of environmental information on cooling facilities, and positions of the cooling facilities are stored as arrangement information. The pieces of working information on the workloads are estimated, and allocation of tentative workloads is deduced for fear the pieces of... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130111490 - Managing resources for maintenance tasks in computing systems: Systems and methods for managing resources for maintenance tasks in computing systems are provided. One system includes a controller and memory coupled to the controller, the memory configured to store a module. The controller, when executing the module, is configured to determine an amount of available resources for use by... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111495 - Load balancing servers: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for load balancing servers are provided. Embodiments include determining, by a balance module, for each server within a rack comprising a plurality of servers, a vertical position of the server relative to the other servers within the rack; selecting from the plurality of servers,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111494 - Managing workload at a data center: Systems and methods of managing workload at a data center are disclosed. An example method may include actively managing workload at a data center to realize energy savings. The method may also include providing excess power generated for the data center onto a utility grid.... Agent:

20130111496 - Performing a local barrier operation: Performing a local barrier operation with parallel tasks executing on a compute node including, for each task: retrieving a present value of a counter; calculating, in dependence upon the present value of the counter and a total number of tasks performing the local barrier operation, a base value, the base... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111497 - Staggering execution of scheduled tasks based on behavioral information: In a method for minimizing occurrences of hanging escalations in a computer system, a computer determines that a number of escalations are scheduled for simultaneous execution in a time interval in a production environment. The computer divides the time interval by the number of escalations to form a shortened time... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104128 - Apparatus, method of managing a plurality of virtual machines, and recording medium: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor that executes a program including a procedure on the memory. The procedure comprises receiving information in which a communication amount corresponding to an amount of transmitted and received data is associated with a transmission source and a destination of the data with... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130104127 - Method of handling network traffic through optimization of receive side scaling: An information handling system (IHS) includes a plurality of processors that include a cache memory, and a receive side scaling (RSS) indirection table with a plurality of pointers each pointing to a processor. A network data packet received by the IHS determines a pointer to a first processor. In response,... Agent:

20130104124 - System and method for dynamic mapping of queues for virtual machines: A method and system for managing multiple queues of a networking device associated with a host machine in a virtual machine system. The networking device includes multiple dedicated queues and shared queues that are used by multiple guests of the virtual machine system for the transmission and/or receipt of packets... Agent:

20130104126 - System and method for dynamically creating machine images for instantiating virtual machines: A method and apparatus for creating a machine image to be used in instantiating virtual nodes in a cloud computing environment. A virtual machine operating system image is created based on the configuration file. The machine operating system image is loaded in the cloud environment as a machine instance. An... Agent: Infosys Limited

20130104125 - System and method for license management of virtual machines at a virtual machine manager: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving an event notification from a virtual machine manager operable to control the execution of one or more virtual machines, the event notification corresponding to a first virtual machine and indicating an event type associated with the first virtual... Agent: Computer Associates Think, Inc.

20130104129 - Virtual-machine control system and virtual-machine moving method: A virtual-machine control program includes an operational-status inquiry unit that inquires of another machine about a memory usage status of virtual machines realized on another machine; a swapping-target selecting unit that selects a virtual machine capable of being swapped for a virtual machine realized on a machine from among the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130104130 - Method and apparatus for power control: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power.... Agent: Cavium, Inc.

20130104131 - Load control device: A load control device 10 for assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources has: a receiver 101 that receives a transaction process request; an assignment controller 102 that selects appropriate assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then stores the transactions in transmission queues 103 provided... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130104132 - Composing analytic solutions: An approach for composing an analytic solution is provided. After associating descriptive schemas with web services and web-based applets, a set of input data sources is enumerated for selection. A desired output type is received. Based on the descriptive schemas that specify required inputs and outputs of the web services... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104134 - Composing analytic solutions: An approach for composing an analytic solution is provided. After associating descriptive schemas with web services and web-based applets, a set of input data sources is enumerated for selection. A desired output type is received. Based on the descriptive schemas that specify required inputs and outputs of the web services... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104133 - Constructing change plans from component interactions: Techniques for constructing change plans from one or more component interactions are provided. For example, a computer-implemented technique includes observing at least one interaction between two or more components of at least one distributed computing system, consolidating the at least one interaction into at least one interaction pattern, and using... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104135 - Data center operation: In response to a map task distributed by a job tracker, a map task tracker executes the map task to generate a map output including version information. The map task tracker stores the generated map outputs. The map task tracker informs the job tracker of related information of the map... Agent: New Orchard Road

20130104137 - Multiprocessor system: A multiprocessor system including a plurality of processors, each including a task scheduler that determines a task execution order of the tasks in a task set to be executed by the processors within a task period which is defined as a period in repeated execution of the task sets, and... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130104136 - Optimizing energy use in a data center by workload scheduling and management: Techniques are described for scheduling received tasks in a data center in a manner that accounts for operating costs of the data center. Embodiments of the invention generally include comparing cost-saving methods of scheduling a task to the operating parameters of completing a task—e.g., a maximum amount of time allotted... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104138 - System and method for topology-aware job scheduling and backfilling in an hpc environment: A method for job management in an HPC environment includes determining an unallocated subset from a plurality of HPC nodes, with each of the unallocated HPC nodes comprising an integrated fabric. An HPC job is selected from a job queue and executed using at least a portion of the unallocated... Agent: Raytheon Company

20130104139 - System for managing data collection processes: A system and process for managing data collection processes is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, a data collection system having a controller element that assigns to each of the processes a query interval according to a priority level of the data collection process... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20130104141 - Divided central data processing,: A circuit configuration for a data processing system and a corresponding method for executing multiple tasks by way of a central processing unit having a processing capacity assigned to the processing unit, the circuit configuration being configured to distribute the processing capacity of the processing unit uniformly among the respective... Agent:

20130104142 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A CPU executes initialization for allocating a storage area of an auxiliary storage device for a program execution area after a particular application program is loaded into the program execution area and becomes executable. Subsequently, the CPU loads a plurality of application programs into the program execution area.... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130104140 - Resource aware scheduling in a distributed computing environment: Systems and methods for resource aware scheduling of processes in a distributed computing environment are described herein. One aspect provides for accessing at least one job and at least one resource on a distributed parallel computing system; generating a current reward value based on the at least one job and... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104143 - Run-time allocation of functions to a hardware accelerator: An accelerator work allocation mechanism determines at run-time which functions to allocate to a hardware accelerator based on a defined accelerator policy, and based on an analysis performed at run-time. The analysis includes reading the accelerator policy, and determining whether a particular function satisfies the accelerator policy. If so, the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130104144 - Application switching in a graphical operating system: A method for application switching in an operating system may be provided. The method may comprise providing at least two active applications on the operating system, and providing a first list of actions related to the first active application, via a first interface, to an application switching manager, and providing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation