Specifying a highly-resilient system in a disaggregated compute environment

US10129169B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ruchi Mahindru · Elmsford, US
• John A. Bivens · Ossining, US
• Koushik K. Das · New York, US
• Min Li · San Diego, US
• HariGovind V. Ramasamy · Ossining, US
• Yaoping Ruan · White Plains, US
• Valentina Salapura · Chappaqua, US
• Eugen Schenfeld · Plainsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 7, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 13, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L47/822
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on workload requirements and a tenant's resiliency requirements (e.g., as specified in an SLA), by allocating from these resource pools. A disaggregated compute system of this type keeps track of resources that are available in the shared server resource pools, and it manages those resources based on that information and the health of the resources. As a workload is processed by the server entity and component resources fail, the server entity composition is changed, e.g. by allocating other resources to the server entity, or by transitioning to other server entities, to ensure that a resiliency requirement is maintained.