Integrating distributed computing environment remote procedure calls with an advisory work load manager

US6067580A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey D. Aman · Poughkeepsie, US
• Carl E. Clark · Poughkeepsie, US
• David B. Emmes · Poughkeepsie, US
• Satwinder Kahlon · Austin, US
• Christopher Meyer · Vestal, US
• Steven Edward Rosengren · Round Rock, US
• Frank S. Samuel, Jr. · Binghamton, US
• Donald W. Schmidt · Stone Ridge, US
• Thomas J. Szczgielski · Endicott, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 1997
• Grant date: May 23, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/547
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Distributed computing environment (DCE) remote procedure calls (RPCs) are integrated with an advisory work load manager (WLM) to provide a way to intelligently dispatch RPC requests among the available application server processes. The routing decisions are made dynamically (for each RPC) based on interactions between the location broker and an advisory work load manager. Furthermore, when the system contains multiple coupled processors (tightly coupled within a single frame, or loosely coupled within a computing complex, a local area network (LAN) configuration, a distributed computing environment (DCE) cell, etc.), the invention extends to balance the processing of RPC requests and the associated client sessions across the coupled systems. Once a session is assigned to a given process, the invention also supports performance monitoring and reporting, dynamic system resource allocation for the RPC requests, and potentially any other benefits that may be available through the specific work load manager (WLM).