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20080228459 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Capacity Planning and Resource Optimization in a Distributed System - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing capacity planning and resource optimization in a distributed system. In particular, the capacity needs of individual components (e.g., server, operating system, CPU, application software, memory, networking device, storage device, etc.) in a distributed system can be analyzed using relationships between measurements collected from the distributed system. These relationships, called invariants, do not change over time. From these measurements, a network of invariants are determined. The network of invariants characterize the relationships between the measurements. The capacity need of at least one component in the distributed system can be determined from the network of invariants. | 09-18-2008 |
20090112780 | DISCOVERING OPTIMAL SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS USING DECENTRALIZED PROBABILITY BASED ACTIVE SAMPLING - A system and method for optimizing system performance includes applying sampling based optimization to identify optimal configurations of a computing system by selecting a number of configuration samples and evaluating system performance based on the samples. Based on feedback of evaluated samples, a location of an optimal configuration is inferred. Additional samples are generated towards the location of the inferred optimal configuration to further optimize a system configuration. | 04-30-2009 |
20090132865 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Profiling of Network Event Sequences - Systems and methods are disclosed that profile event sequences by creating a mixture model from the event sequences; estimating parameters for the mixture model; and applying the mixture model to profile the event sequences. | 05-21-2009 |
20090292954 | RANKING THE IMPORTANCE OF ALERTS FOR PROBLEM DETERMINATION IN LARGE SYSTEMS - A system and method for prioritizing alerts includes extracting invariants to determine a stable set of models for determining relationships among monitored system data. Equivalent thresholds for a plurality of rules are computed using an invariant network developed by extracting the invariants. For a given time window, a set of alerts are received from a system being monitored. A measurement value of the alerts is compared with a vector of equivalent thresholds, and the set of alerts is ranked. | 11-26-2009 |
20100131440 | EXPERIENCE TRANSFER FOR THE CONFIGURATION TUNING OF LARGE SCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method employing experience transfer to improve the efficiencies of an exemplary configuration tuning in computing systems. The method employs a Bayesian network guided tuning algorithm to discover the optimal configuration setting. After the tuning has been completed, a Bayesian network is obtained that records the parameter dependencies in the original system. Such parameter dependency knowledge has been successfully embedded to accelerate the configuration searches in other systems. Experimental results have demonstrated that with the help of transferred experiences we can achieve significant time savings for the configuration tuning task. | 05-27-2010 |
20100262858 | Invariants-Based Learning Method and System for Failure Diagnosis in Large Scale Computing Systems - A method system for diagnosing a detected failure in a computer system, compares a failure signature of the detected failure to an archived failure signature contained in a database to determine if the archived failure signature matches the failure signature of the detected failure. If the archived failure signature matches the failure signature of the detected failure, an archived solution is applied to the computer system that resolves the detected failure, the archived solution corresponding to a solution used to resolve a previously detected computer system failure corresponding to the archived failure signature in the database that matches the detected failure. | 10-14-2010 |
20110173327 | Virtualization and Consolidation Analysis Engine for Enterprise Data Centers - A method and apparatus for consolidating a plurality of applications into one or more servers. The method and apparatus organizes consolidation constraints representing preferences about placing applications into the one or more servers, and allocates the applications into the one or more servers in a manner that maximally satisfies the consolidation constraints. | 07-14-2011 |
20110320391 | Method and Apparatus for Predicting Application Performance Across Machines with Different Hardware Configurations - A method and system for predicting performance of an application on a machine of a predetermined hardware configuration simulates the performance of the application under a plurality of different simulated hardware configurations; builds a predictive model of the performance of the application based on the results of the simulations; obtains the performance of the application on a plurality of actual machines, each of the machines having a different hardware configuration; and Bayesian reinterprets the predictive model built from the results of the simulations using the performance of the application on the plurality of actual machines, to obtain a final predictive model of the performance of the application having an accuracy greater than the predictive model built from the results of the simulations. | 12-29-2011 |
20120185851 | CALCULATING VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE UTILIZATION INFORMATION - A system and method are provided for estimating physical resource utilization information for virtual machines. The system includes a model which indicates how virtual resource activities are transformed into physical resource activities for each virtual machine running on a server. A run-time calibrator utilizes the model to estimate physical resource utiliation information for each individual virtual machine on the server. | 07-19-2012 |
20130086272 | NETWORK-AWARE COORDINATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATIONS IN ENTERPRISE DATA CENTERS AND CLOUDS - Systems and methods are disclosed to schedule virtual machine (VM) migrations by analyzing VM migration behavior; building a simulation tool to predict time for multiple migrations under different links conditions and VM characteristics; determining a predetermined bandwidth sharing policy for each network link; applying a bin-packing technique to organize bandwidth resources from all network links, and allocating the links to different migration tasks. | 04-04-2013 |
20140108314 | INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MODEL TIME SERIES DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS - A system and method for analysis of complex systems which includes determining model parameters based on time series data, further including profiling a plurality of types of data properties to discover complex data properties and dependencies; classifying the data dependencies into predetermined categories for analysis; and generating a plurality of models based on the discovered properties and dependencies. The system and method may analyze, using a processor, the generated models based on a fitness score determined for each model to generate a status report for each model; integrate the status reports for each model to determine an anomaly score for the generated models; and generate an alarm when the anomaly score exceeds a predefined threshold. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108324 | DATA ANALYTIC ENGINE TOWARDS THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS - Systems and method for modeling system dynamics, including extracting features representative of a temporal evolution of a dynamical system, further including deriving one or more vector trajectories by performing sliding window segmentation of one or more time series; applying a linear test to determine whether the one or more vector trajectories are linear or nonlinear; and performing linear or nonlinear subspace decomposition on the vector trajectory based on the linear test. The system and method may generate a system evolution model from the extracted features of the dynamical system and determine a fitness score of the system evolution model. | 04-17-2014 |
20150094959 | HETEROGENEOUS LOG ANALYSIS - A method and system are provided for heterogeneous log analysis. The method includes performing hierarchical log clustering on heterogeneous logs to generate a log cluster hierarchy for the heterogeneous logs. The method further includes performing, by a log pattern recognizer device having a processor, log pattern recognition on the log cluster hierarchy to generate log pattern representations. The method also includes performing log field analysis on the log pattern representations to generate log field statistics. The method additionally includes performing log indexing on the log pattern representations to generate log indexes. | 04-02-2015 |
20150235139 | EXTRACTING INTERPRETABLE FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES FROM PHYSICAL SYSTEMS - A method and system are provided. The method includes extracting shapelets from each of a plurality of time series dimensions of multi-dimensional time series data. The method further includes building a plurality of decision-tree classifiers, one for each time series dimension, responsive to the shapelets extracted therefrom. The method also includes generating a pairwise similarity matrix between respective different ones of the plurality of time series dimensions using the shapelets as intermediaries for determining similarity. The method additionally includes applying a feature selection technique to the matrix to determine respective feature weights for each of shapelet features of the shapelets and respective classifier weights for each of the decision-tree classifiers that uses the shapelet features. The method further includes combining decisions issued from the decision-tree classifiers to generate a final verdict of classification for a time series dimension responsive to the respective feature weights and the respective classifier weights. | 08-20-2015 |
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20090191597 | ENHANCED PRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS PARVOVIRUS VECTORS IN INSECT CELLS - A method of producing a packaged parvovirus vector, the method comprising: (a) providing an insect cell; (b) introducing into the insect cell one or more vectors comprising nucleotide sequences encoding: (i) a transgene flanked by TRs; and (ii) baculovirus packaging functions comprising Rep components and Cap components sufficient to result in packaging of infective parvovirus particles, wherein VP1 is supplemented relative to VP2 and VP3 sufficient to increase the production of infectious viral particles; and (c) introducing into the cell a nucleic acid encoding baculovirus helper functions for expression in the insect cell; (d) culturing the cell under conditions sufficient to produce the infectious packaged parvovirus vector. | 07-30-2009 |
20090203071 | EXPRESSION IN INSECT CELLS OF GENES WITH OVERLAPPING OPEN READING FRAMES, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREFOR - The present teachings disclose nucleic acid cassettes for expressing in an insect cell a plurality of polypeptides encoded by a gene comprising overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). A cassette comprises, in 5′ to 3′ order, a) a first insect cell-operable promoter, b) a 5′ portion of a gene comprising a first ORF of the gene, c) an intron comprising a second insect cell-operable promoter, and d) a 3′ portion of the gene comprising at least one additional ORF. Vectors and insect cells comprising the cassettes are also disclosed, as well as methods for production of recombinant adeno-associated virus in insect cells using the cassettes. | 08-13-2009 |
20140329313 | EXPRESSION IN INSECT CELLS OF GENES WITH OVERLAPPING OPEN READING FRAMES, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREFOR - The present teachings disclose nucleic acid cassettes for expressing in an insect cell a plurality of polypeptides encoded by a gene comprising overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). A cassette comprises, in 5′ to 3′ order, a) a first insect cell-operable promoter, b) a 5′ portion of a gene comprising a first ORF of the gene, c) an intron comprising a second insect cell-operable promoter, and d) a 3′ portion of the gene comprising at least one additional ORF. Vectors and insect cells comprising the cassettes are also disclosed, as well as methods for production of recombinant adeno-associated virus in insect cells using the cassettes. | 11-06-2014 |
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20140118389 | CHARACTER REGION PIXEL IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An anti-aliasing font character on a monitor is prevented from being erroneously judged as an image region. The pixel of interest and four pixels each preceding and following the pixel of interest (a total of nine pixels) are extracted (S | 05-01-2014 |
20140126827 | MOTION IMAGE REGION IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A rectangular moving image region is determined using a simple configuration. When the difference between the representative value of a unit block and the representative value of the same unit block in a comparative frame exceeds a threshold, moving unit block judgment means | 05-08-2014 |
20150077638 | MOVING IMAGE REGION DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A rectangular moving region is properly determined. A retainer retains an outputted moving region of time t and, at time t+1, provides it to a specified region feature detector. At time t+1, the specified region feature detector applies the moving coordinates of time t provided by the judgment unit to respective images of times t and t+1 to calculate feature data d(t) around the moving coordinates of time t and feature data d(t+1) around the moving coordinates of time t+1 and then provides the calculated data to a judgment unit. The judgment unit judges whether there is a box, based on the feature data d(t+1). | 03-19-2015 |
20150227812 | MAGNIFICATION FACTOR ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SAME - A magnification factor is estimated for a magnified image. A generating means generates an image by removing a high frequency component from an input image. A first calculating means calculates a high frequency component greater than or equal to a prescribed frequency component in the spatial frequency component of the input image, as a spatial frequency component characteristic value. A second calculating means calculates the spatial frequency component of the input image, as a second spatial frequency component characteristic value. A determining means determines whether each pixel is block noise. A magnification factor estimating means removes pixels determined to be block noise by the determining means from summation target pixels and, estimates the magnification factor of the input image to be higher when the difference between the first spatial frequency component characteristic values and second spatial frequency component characteristic values of the remaining pixels is smaller. | 08-13-2015 |
20150341592 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FRAME RATE CONTROL PROCESS DETERMINATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD - To detect whether an FRC process is performed, provided is an image processing apparatus including an earlier frame movement region detecting means that detects an earlier frame movement region in an earlier frame; a later frame movement region detecting means that detects a later frame movement region in a later frame that is positioned after the earlier frame; a determining means that, when a shift between the earlier frame movement region and the later frame movement region is less than or equal to a region shift threshold value, determines that a frame rate control process is being performed and outputs a parameter change command for changing a threshold value of an image processing parameter; and an image processing means that, upon receiving the parameter change command, changes the threshold value of the image processing parameter. | 11-26-2015 |
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20140296324 | VECTORS HARBORING TOXIC GENES, METHODS AND USES THEREFOR - The present disclosure describes nucleic acids, and viruses comprising such nucleic acids, for growing a toxic gene in an insect cell. These nucleic acids comprise a sequence encoding a toxic polypeptide, and an intron that interrupts the sequence, whereby the intron is spliced in mammalian cells but not in insect cells. Infection of mammalian cells but not insect cells with the nucleic acids or viruses can lead to expression of toxic levels of the toxic polypeptide in mammalian cells but not in insect cells. Viruses, such as an AAV or a baculovirus comprising a nucleic acid can be grown in insect cell lines in vitro and can be administered to a subject in need of therapy, such as a subject in need of cancer therapy. | 10-02-2014 |
20150031115 | EXPRESSION IN INSECT CELLS OF GENES WITH OVERLAPPING OPEN READING FRAMES, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREFOR - The present teachings disclose nucleic acid cassettes for expressing in an insect cell a plurality of polypeptides encoded by a gene comprising overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). A cassette comprises, in 5′ to 3′ order, a) a first insect cell-operable promoter, b) a 5′ portion of a gene comprising a first ORF of the gene, c) an intron comprising a second insect cell-operable promoter, and d) a 3′ portion of the gene comprising at least one additional ORF. Vectors and insect cells comprising the cassettes are also disclosed, as well as methods for production of recombinant adeno-associated virus in insect cells using the cassettes. | 01-29-2015 |