Request queue management
US7146233B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 20, 2002 |
| Grant date | Dec 5, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 16, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/505
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods and apparatus providing, controlling and managing a dynamically sized, highly scalable and available server farm are disclosed. A Virtual Server Farm (VSF) is created out of a wide scale computing fabric (“Computing Grid”) which is physically constructed once and then logically divided up into VSFs for various organizations on demand. Each organization retains independent administrative control of a VSF. A VSF is dynamically firewalled within the Computing Grid. Allocation and control of the elements in the VSF is performed by a control plane connected to all computing, networking, and storage elements in the computing grid through special control ports. The internal topology of each VSF is under control of the control plane. A request queue architecture is also provided for processing work requests that allows selected requests to be blocked until required human intervention is satisfied.
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