International Business Machines Corporation

Anand Teerth Desai

Douglas J Griffith

Andrew Dunshea

Anil Kalavakolanu

Antonio Garcia

Sreenivas Makineedi

Srinivasa Rao Muppala

A method begins by sending, by a user computing device of a storage network, a read request regarding data to a host computing device of the storage network in accordance with a transport layer protocol, where the read request includes data retrieval information associated the data. The method continues with determining, by the host computing device, a storage entity of the storage network that is storing the data based on the data retrieval information. The method continues with sending, by the host computing device, socket information and data retrieval information to the storage entity. The method continues with sending, by the storage entity, the data directly to the user computing device in accordance with the socket information and using the session identifier.

Direct file send from storage to end client by transferring socket information to the storage

A method for enhanced restart of a core dumping application is provided. The method includes stopping a plurality of threads in an address space, except for the thread performing the core dump. Computational segments are remapped to client segments. Each open file descriptor in the address space is closed. The application is terminated and the client segments are flushed to external storage.

Enhanced restart of a core dumping application

A server and rack system includes at least one server rack; multiple server slots within the rack; multiple near field communication (NFC) tags; a server located within one of the server slots; an NFC reader within and powered by the server; and an entity that needs to receive locations of servers within racks of the system. Each of the multiple NFC tags is positioned on the rack so as to individually correspond, on a one-to-one basis, with each of the multiple server slots, and each of the NFC tags is programmed with an identifier of the specific rack and slot with which it corresponds, and the NFC reader is positioned such that, when power is supplied to the NFC reader by the server, the NFC reader will read the identifier that corresponds to the slot the server is located within and automatically communicate that identifier to the entity.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Anand Teerth Desai