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20080244306 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE SAME - In a storage system performing remote copy, when a failure occurs in a storage apparatus, optimum redundancy configuration is reestablished promptly. In the storage system performing remote copy, when a storage apparatus detects a failure in its disk drive, a storage apparatus capable of providing a logical unit that can be a replacement for the logical unit affected by the failure in the disk drive is searched for based on storage apparatus performance, and a redundancy configuration is reestablished using a new logical unit the found storage apparatus provides. | 10-02-2008 |
20080256308 | Storage system, method for managing the same, and storage controller - A storage system includes one or more host computers; and a storage controller that provides each of the one or more host computers with a plurality of logical volumes, each including a storage area for reading/writing data from/to, and also being either allocated or not allocated to one or more of the host computers, the storage controller including: an identification unit that identifies function information relating to a logical volume from among the plurality of logical volumes included in information relating to the plurality of logical volumes based on a command from a host computer from among the one or more host computers; and an execution unit that executes processing on the logical volume in accordance with an identification result of the identification unit. | 10-16-2008 |
20110276982 | Load Balancer and Load Balancing System - In a system including a load balancer to select a virtual server to which a request is to be transferred, the load balancer includes a function to monitor resource use states of physical and virtual servers and a function to predict a packet loss occurring in a virtual switch. The request count of requests processible by each virtual server is calculated based on the resource amount available for the virtual server and a packet loss rate of the virtual switch, to thereby select a virtual server capable of processing a larger number of requests. | 11-10-2011 |
20110280252 | Managing Virtual Ports in an Information Processing System - A method is provided with which a name of a virtual port is not changed when virtualized storage is moved among switches. Information about a creator and a borrower of name information is added to a table including name information and address information of a virtual port of a name server managing the name information and the address information. The name information is provided to plural switches and managed. In addition, name information, which can be used commonly among name servers managing the name information and the address information is pooled in advance, and the name information of the virtual port is borrowed from there. | 11-17-2011 |
20120030423 | STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLING METHODS FOR THE SAME AND PROGRAMS - This invention ensures the provision of data as complete files in the storage device capable of processing both block I/O and file I/O. For this purpose, for each of the logical volumes, this invention attempts to unmount logical units (LUs) storing files triggered by a session start request for block I/O (login request) such as iSCSI, and to recognize (mount) files of the logical units triggered by a session completion request for block I/O (logout request) (refer to FIG. | 02-02-2012 |
20120297037 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS TO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS IN COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM NEWLY ADDED AND METHOD FOR NEWLY ADDING COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM TO COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer subsystem is provided with a switch apparatus group that is at least one switch apparatus that is coupled to the communication network and a plurality of communication apparatuses that includes an internal management apparatus (an internal apparatus). The internal management apparatus transmits a request of a plurality of IP addresses that are allocated to the plurality of communication apparatuses to an external management apparatus that is disposed outside the computer subsystem. The external management apparatus manages whether or not each of M static IP addresses can be allocated, specifies a plurality of static IP addresses that can be allocated in response to the request, and transmits the plurality of specified static IP addresses to the internal management apparatus. The internal management apparatus allocates the plurality of static IP addresses to a plurality of internal apparatus. | 11-22-2012 |
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20100325594 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN ASSISTING METHOD, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN ASSISTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printed circuit board design assisting method, device and storage medium are provided. The assisting method includes referring to the position of terminals of a grid array package part, and attributes indicating whether each of the terminals is a power source terminal or a ground terminal, and selecting the power source terminals as a terminal to be researched, searching for a new connection path between the terminal which has been selected, and one of the ground terminals, by way of a first decoupling capacitor, determining whether there is duplication of paths between the new connection path and an connection path between the terminals connected by way of a second decoupling capacitor, changing the position of the second decoupling capacitor if duplication is detected, and re-searching a connection path between the terminals by way of the second decoupling capacitor, which is not in duplicate with the new connection path. | 12-23-2010 |
20110061039 | CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID APPARATUS, CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORTING CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID PROGRAM - The present disclosure includes a basic shield pattern element generation section configured to generate a basic shield pattern element based on a geometry of the pattern element and a preset pattern generation condition; a prohibition region generation section configured to generate a prohibition region based on a geometry of an element for which a clearance check is to be performed located around the wiring pattern and a clearance condition between the element for performing a clearance check and the wiring pattern; and a shield pattern geometry generation section configured to generate the shield pattern by excluding the geometry of the prohibition region from a geometry of the basic shield pattern element, thereby improving the design efficiency and design quality by efficiently generating shield patterns even when an element for which a clearance check is to be performed is present in the vicinity of the wiring pattern. | 03-10-2011 |
20110093829 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD - A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein a design support program that causes a computer to execute selecting a wiring path whose line length is greatest among a plurality of wiring paths making up a wiring group leading from a transmission origin to a transmission destination; detecting insufficient line lengths of the wiring paths not selected, insufficiency being determined with respect to the line length of the selected wiring path; calculating the area of insufficiency according to a sum of the detected insufficient line lengths; allocating to a vicinity of the wiring group, a line length adjustment region corresponding to a sum of the areas of insufficiency calculated at calculating; and controlling a display screen to display the wiring group and the allocated line length adjustment region. | 04-21-2011 |
20110225561 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a design supporting program causes a computer to perform: acquiring non-complying line lengths of a plurality of wiring paths; drawing for each of the wiring paths a wiring pattern connecting a transmission origin and a transmission destination based on a line length and a wiring route of the wiring path; and controlling the drawing to draw a line for each of the wiring paths, the line being divided into a first line amounting to a non-complying line length acquired at the acquiring and a second line being a wiring pass less the non-complying line length. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231809 | WIRING DESIGN DEVICE, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A wiring design device to conduct wiring design on a printed wiring board that includes a plurality of conductive layers, the wiring design device including: noise contaminating part extracting means for extracting a part in a condition where noise contaminates a signal, the part being on a wiring-designed line, based on a route of the line and a physical condition around the route; route modification processing means for modifying the route of the line by moving the extracted part on the line in the condition where noise contaminates the signal to a position that avoids the condition where noise contaminates the signal; and line length adjusting means for conducting a line length adjustment on the line to compensate for a variation of the line length of the line when the variation of the line length of the line occurs due to modifying the route of the line. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231810 | SUPPORT COMPUTER PRODUCT, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores therein a design support program that causes a computer executing tentative wiring processing between a first terminal group and a second terminal group in a tentative wiring area to execute a process. The process includes detecting unwired nets occurring in the tentative wiring area consequent to the tentative wiring processing; updating the tentative wiring area by expanding the tentative wiring area according to the number of unwired nets, if any unwired nets are detected at the detecting; controlling to execute the tentative wiring processing and the subsequent detecting with respect to the tentative wiring area updated at the updating; and determining the tentative wiring area to be a wiring area if no unwired nets are detected at the detecting. | 09-22-2011 |
20120117529 | APPARATUS, DESIGN METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer-readable medium storing a design program causing a computer to execute a process is provided. The process includes virtually routing, when routing of a wire to be connected between a first component and a second component at least one of which includes a swapping pin is being designed, the wire to be connected between a first pin of the first component and a first counterpart pin of the second component such that implementation of an actual routed wire connected therebetween is secured regardless of a net allocated to the swapping pin, and swapping one of the virtually routed first pin and the virtually routed first counterpart pin with the swapping pin such that the net allocated to the swapping pin is identical to a net allocated to the other one of the virtually routed first pin and the virtually routed first counterpart pin. | 05-10-2012 |
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20080301600 | CAD apparatus and check support apparatus - In a computer aided design (CAD) apparatus, an association-data acquiring unit acquires association data that defines an association between pins of a first connector and those of a second connector to be connected to the first connector, and an assignment of signals to the pins. A part-information acquiring unit acquires information including a symbol of the first connector. A layout-condition acquiring unit acquires a layout condition to lay out the symbol of the first connector on a circuit diagram. A circuit diagram creating/updating unit lays out the symbol of the first connector on the circuit diagram based on the layout condition, and adds a net name indicating a signal assigned to each of the pins to the symbol. | 12-04-2008 |
20090249058 | SYSTEM AIDING FOR DESIGN - A system aiding for design includes a determining unit determining whether it is possible to first product data with second product data by comparing interface data of the first product data with interface data of the second product data and a replacing unit replacing the first product data contained in design data with the second product data when the determining unit determines that replacement is possible. | 10-01-2009 |
20090287317 | Display control apparatus and method and display control program - According to an aspect of the embodiment, a display control apparatus includes a storage unit storing a plurality of connection information each of which is associated at least with one property information, an extraction unit extracting connection information from the plurality of connection information, the extracted connection information including property information which partially correspond with each other, and a display unit performing display control to distinguish the extracted connection information extracted by the extraction unit from the other connection information. | 11-19-2009 |
20100241474 | ASSEMBLY SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY SUPPORT - A assembly support apparatus for promotion of an information system, includes a memory for storing design information of the information system including information of a plurality of components necessary for the production of the information system; and a processor for generating instructions for procurement of the components in accordance with a process comprising; discriminating the components into those available as inventory items and those that need to be procured from the exterior on the basis of the design information stored in the memory, urging information of persons responsible to procure the component to be inputted in association with those components to be inputted in association with those components to be produced respectively, and generating instructions directed to the responsible persons for procurement of those components to be procured from the exterior respectively. | 09-23-2010 |
20110219369 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - By including a control definition information storage unit that obtains, from control definition information having control information related to an application program defined, a functional element identification name that can be arbitrarily set to a functional element; a functional element definition information reading section that obtains, by referencing to functional element definition information configured related to a functional element ID unique to the functional element identification name, the functional element ID corresponding to the functional element identification name; and a setup unit that sets up the application program in the information processing apparatus, using the obtained functional element ID the need to create multiple resource files and code files for the respective purposes or the like can be eliminated, thereby reducing the management cost therefor. | 09-08-2011 |