Decision based system for managing distributed resources and modeling the global optimization problem

US8140523B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Sameh A. Fakhouri · New Rochelle, US
• William Francis Jerome · Baldwin Place, US
• Krishna Kummamuru · Bengaluru, IN
• Vijay K. Naik · Pleasantville, US
• John Arthur Pershing, Jr. · Somers, US
• Ajay Raina · Elmsford, US
• Pradeep Varma · New Delhi, IN
• Peter B. Badovinatz · Beaverton, US
• Vijay Kumar · New Delhi, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A decision support system called Mounties that is designed for managing applications and resources using rule-based constraints in scalable mission-critical clustering environments. Mounties consists of four active service components: (1) a repository of resource proxy objects for modeling and manipulating the cluster configuration; (2) an event notification mechanism for monitoring and controlling interdependent and distributed resources; (3) a rule evaluation and decision processing mechanism; and (4) a global optimization service for providing decision making capabilities. The focus of this paper is on the design of the first three services that together connect and coordinate the distributed resources with the decision making component.