Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Miscellaneous
Reexamination Certificate
2002-06-26
2010-06-08
Tang, Karen C (Department: 2451)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Miscellaneous
C709S201000, C709S204000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07734676
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to the control of servers which process client work requests in a computer system on the basis of resource consumption. Each server contains multiple server instances (also called “execution units”) which execute different client work requests in parallel. A workload manager determines the total number of server containers and server instances in order to achieve the goals of the work requests. The number of server instances started in each server container depends on the resource consumption of the server instances in each container and on the resource constraints, service goals and service goal achievements of the work units to be executed. At predetermined intervals during the execution of the work units the server instances are sampled to check whether they are active or inactive. Dependent on the number of active server instances the number of server address spaces and server instances is repeatedly adjusted to achieve an improved utilization of the available virtual storage and an optimization of the system performance in the execution of the application programs.
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Dritschler Greg M.
Vater Guenter
Vaupel Robert
Yocom Peter B.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kinnaman, Jr. William A.
Tang Karen C
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