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| 20100083262 | Scheduling Requesters Of A Shared Storage Resource - To schedule workloads of requesters of a shared storage resource, a scheduler specifies relative fairness for the requesters of the shared storage resource. In response to the workloads of the requesters, the scheduler modifies performance of the scheduler to deviate from the specified relative fairness to improve input/output (I/O) efficiency in processing the workloads at the shared storage resource. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100106681 | Identifying Files Associated With A Workflow - To determine files associated with one or more workflows, a trace of accesses of files in at least one server is received. The files are grouped into at least one set of files, where the files in the set are accessed together more than a predetermined number of times in the trace. Files associated with the particular workflow are identified based on the at least one set. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100192153 | SELECTING EXECUTING REQUESTS TO PREEMPT - Requests that are executing when an application is determined to be in an overload condition are preempted. To select the executing requests to preempt, a value for each executing request is determined. Then, executing requests are selected for preemption based on the values. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110004884 | Performance degradation based at least on computing application priority and in a relative manner that is known and predictable beforehand - A model is constructed to determine performance of each computing application based on allocation of resources (including at least one hardware resource) to the computing applications. How the allocation of the resources to the computing applications affects the performance is unknown beforehand. The resources are allocated to the computing applications based at least on the model. Where the resources are overloaded as allocated to the computing applications, performance degradation of each computing application is performed based at least on priorities of the computing applications relative to one another and on the model. Performance degradation reduces usage of the resources by the computing applications so that the resources are no longer overloaded. How the priorities of the computing applications affect the performance degradation in a relative manner to one another is known and predictable beforehand. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110145449 | Differentiated Storage QoS - A system includes disk storage to provide differentiated storage QoS for a plurality of IO classes. Each IO class has a plurality of applications to it. A QoS controller collects IO statistics for each application and each class. The QoS controller adaptively determines an IO class assignment for each application based at least in part on the collected IO statistics. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110231582 | TREND DETERMINATION AND IDENTIFICATION - A system comprises a processor and an alert module coupled to the processor. The processor the processor monitors performance data; determines a subset of the performance data, the subset correlated with a measure of underperformance; determines a trend of the subset, the trend correlated with the measure; and identifies an occurrence of the trend. The alert module outputs an alert based on the identification. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110296249 | SELECTING A CONFIGURATION FOR AN APPLICATION - There is provided a computer-implemented method for selecting from a plurality of full configurations of a storage system an operational configuration for executing an application. An exemplary method comprises obtaining application performance data for the application on each of a plurality of test configurations. The exemplary method also comprises obtaining benchmark performance data with respect to execution of a benchmark on the plurality of full configurations, one or more degraded configurations of the full configurations and the plurality of test configurations. The exemplary method additionally comprises estimating a metric for executing the application on each of the plurality of full configurations based on the application performance data and the benchmark performance data. The operational configuration may be selected from among the plurality full configurations based on the metric. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120014015 | HARD DISK DRIVE HAVING REGIONS CORRESPONDING TO DIFFERENT SPEEDS AT WHICH STORAGE SURFACE ROTATES - A hard disk drive includes a storage surface, a motor, a read/write had, and a number of regions into which the storage surface is divisible. Data is writable to and data is readable from the storage surface. The motor is to rotate the storage surface at a variable speed. The read/write head is to write data to and read data from the storage surface while the storage surface is rotated by the motor. Each region corresponds to a different speed at which the storage surface is rotated for the read/write head to write data to and read data from the region. | 01-19-2012 |
