International Business Machines Corporation

Elisabeth R Stahl

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Jenny S Li

Anne R Sand

Vivek Salve

Judith Helen Bank

Steven E Froehlich

James Newman Chen

Karl Robert Huppler

Joseph Foti, Jr

Clarisse T Taafe-Hedglin

An olfactory-based cognitive system is implemented by receiving a request from a user, the request including one or more attributes, wherein the one or more attributes include at least olfactory-sensed data and an identification of the olfactometer or electronic nose utilized to gather the olfactory-sensed data. A set of candidate recommendations is generated utilizing the one or more attributes from data sources. A confidence score is generated for each candidate recommendation in the set of candidate recommendations indicating a confidence that the corresponding candidate recommendation is valid to address the request. Each candidate recommendation in the set of candidate recommendations is ranked according to its respective confidence scores. The ranked listing of candidate recommendations is presented to the user for use in addressing the request.

Olfactory cognitive diagnosis

A method and apparatus for and article of manufacture for simulating workloads experienced by multiple partitions in a virtualized system are provided. A master workload driver initiates, coordinates and regulates one or more workload drivers that execute one or more workload simulation tasks in a logical partition. Further, each workload driver may be configured to report a measure of performance regarding the workload to the master control driver where results of many workload drivers may be correlated and analyzed. A configuration file specifies the characteristics of each simulation. Further, the rate and nature of workloads may be adjusted dynamically during a given simulation to model the performance under different real-world scenarios of different computational loads that may be experienced by the virtualized system.

Performing dynamic simulations within virtualized environment

A method and system for provisioning data that has been collected and stored in a source database. The source database is a database that consumes a large amount of power and drains the company's database resources. The method and system determine which data should be provisioned and sent to a target server, the target server being more energy efficient than the source database and less exhausting of company resources. Various factors, such as the amount of data being requested and the frequency of change of the requested data, determine whether a transfer of data from the source database to the more energy efficient target database should be performed.

Energy efficient data provisioning

A method and system for migrating source data from one or more databases to a destination database, wherein the destination database is selected based on power consumption of the destination database. A data migration server determines which destination database should be selected by selecting a number of candidates and comparing the power consumed, the available space and the maximum monthly power consumption limit. A user intervention policy is created to evaluate which data should be moved to a destination database. A 'payback period' is calculated to determine the amount of time that will elapse before savings are realized.

Method and system for data migration

A method and system for migrating source data from a source database to a destination database based on energy efficiency and conservation. A migration server evaluates the source data for usage and requirements and defines data usage and requirement tags for the source data. The source data is disaggregated into one or more source data sets based on the data usage and requirement tags. The migration server then identifies candidate destinations for the source data, wherein each candidate destination has stored data identified with usage and requirement tags. The data migration server compares the first usage and requirement tags of the source data with the second usage and requirement tags of the stored data and identifies an optimal destination database based on the comparing step. The data migration server migrates the source data to the optimal destination database.

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Shaker Heights, OH, United States of America

Elisabeth R Stahl