A COMPUTING SERVICES GRID
    2.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:AU2003240078A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-31

    申请号:AU2003240078

    申请日:2003-06-09

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A computing services grid. The grid can include a service desk coupled to one or more computing service instances. Each service instance can conform to an interface which is common to all service instances in the grid. A routing component can be disposed in the grid. Specifically, the routing component can route individual service requests to individual ones of the service instances. An instance selection service is used to satisfy QoS characteristics associated with the requester of the service. The grid further can include a service instance monitoring component. The monitoring component can monitor the performance of individual service instances charged with processing individual service requests. Fail-over logic can be configured to re-route service requests from selected service instances to others of the service instances where the monitoring component detects a fail-over condition in the selected service instances. In that regard, fail-over conditions can include error conditions and a performance deficiency conditions in which the performance of a selected service instance lags behind guaranteed levels of performance.

    A COMPUTING SERVICES GRID
    3.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:CA2486434C

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-28

    申请号:CA2486434

    申请日:2003-06-09

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A computing services grid. The grid can include a service desk coupled to one or more computing service instances. Each service instance can conform to an interface which is common to all service instances in the grid. A routing component can be disposed in the grid. Specifically, the routing component can route individual service requests to individual ones of the service instances. An instance selection service is used to satisfy QoS characteristics associated with the requestor of the service. The grid further can include a service instance monitoring component. The monitoring component can monitor the performance of individual service instances charged with processing individual service requests. Fail-over logic can be configured to re-route service requests from selected service instances to others of the service instances where the monitoring component detects a fail-over condition in the selected service instances. In that regard, fail-over conditions can include error conditions and a performance deficiency conditions in which the performance of a selected service instance lags behind guaranteed levels of performance.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION OF RELATIVELY LARGE DATA OBJECTS IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:CA2228334A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-08-19

    申请号:CA2228334

    申请日:1998-01-30

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Transmission control improves the performance in a communications system relating to transferring large data objects between domains or applications. This reduces or eliminates data movement between domains by transferring ownership of the "container" containing the data as opposed to moving the contents of the container from one domain to another domain resulting in copying the large data object. Thus, transmission control provides for control of the transmission of relatively large data objects between domains in a communications system which otherwise only allows efficient transmission of relatively small data objects between domains in a communications system. Tokens are assigned and associated with buffers containing the data to be shared. The token is not an address, but rather an identifier for the buffer which can be transferred from one domain to a second domain without requiring the copying of the data. The domain which originally requests the buffer is assigned a primary token and secondary tokens are assigned to each subsequent domain which also requests access to the buffer. A storage manager uniquely associates the buffer with the first domain and a primary token with the first buffer to permit the first domain to refer to the buffer. Secondary tokens are associated with the first buffer and subsequent domains also requesting the buffer. Thus, the buffer can be passed from the first domain to subsequent domains without physically moving the data. Once each domain is finished processing the data and the buffer is released by each domain, the buffer is released or reallocated and returned to a pool of available buffers. Alternatively, ownership of the buffer may be returned to the original domain that requested the buffer once processing of the buffer is completed by all domains.

    A COMPUTING SERVICES GRID
    5.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:CA2486434A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-24

    申请号:CA2486434

    申请日:2003-06-09

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A computing services grid. The grid can include a service desk coupled to on e or more computing service instances. Each service instance can conform to an interface which is common to all service instances in the grid. A routing component can be disposed in the grid. Specifically, the routing component c an route individual service requests to individual ones of the service instance s. An instance selection service is used to satisfy QoS characteristics associated with the requestor of the service. The grid further can include a service instance monitoring component. The monitoring component can monitor the performance of individual service instances charged with processing individual service requests. Fail-over logic can be configured to re-route service requests from selected service instances to others of the service instances where the monitoring component detects a fail-over condition in th e selected service instances. In that regard, fail-over conditions can include error conditions and a performance deficiency conditions in which the performance of a selected service instance lags behind guaranteed levels of performance.

    SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE PROCESSING OF RELATIVELY LARGE DATA OBJECTS IN A COMMUNICATIONS STACK

    公开(公告)号:CA2229399A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-08-19

    申请号:CA2229399

    申请日:1998-02-13

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Management of the processing of relatively large data objects in a communications stack having multiple layers improves the performance in a communications system in preparing relatively large data objects for transmission across a communications network. This reduces or eliminates data movement and copying during segmentation of the relatively large data objects into relatively small data objects, and appendage of headers to the relatively small data object segments during processing in the communications stack. A shared storage manager creates and controls multiple tokens representing multiple images of portions of the relatively large data objects to enable separate scheduling of the multiple images from the same storage unit or buffer to be passed from one layer in a communications stack to the next lower layer in the communications stack. The large data object is segmented into a plurality of relatively small data object segments at one or more of the layers in the communications stack. When dictated by the communications stack, header segments are also created for each relatively small data object segment. Each header segment contains specific information for the relatively small data object segment to which the header corresponds. A separate buffer list is generated by the communications stack for each relatively small data object segment and for each corresponding header segment.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN CONNECTION WITH A COMMUNICATIONS STACK IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:CA2227366A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-08-19

    申请号:CA2227366

    申请日:1998-01-16

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Management of datastream construction prior to transmission of the datastream ac ross a channel of a communications system by providing for data blocking while reducing movement or copying of the data improves the performance in a communications system. Multipl e header segments received from a higher layer in the communications stack are copied int o the datastream header area of a datastream such that the header segments are sequentially store d in the datastream header area. A datastream buffer list having entries referencing the datastream header area is generated. Buffer list entries referencing data segments received from higher la yers in the communications stack are also stored in the datastream buffer list. The data seg ments are not physically moved or copied into the datastream during processing by the communic ations stack. Rather, a "virtual" datastream is generated by the communications stack for tran smission without physically moving or copying the data segment. The datastream is transmitted acr oss the channel by the system input/output interface by first writing the datastream header area re ferenced by the datastream buffer list directly into the channel, and the data segments directly from their original storage location into the channel of the communications system using the datastr eam buffer list entries.

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