International Business Machines Corporation

George W Wang

David Arlen Elko

Michael D Swanson

James Z Teng

Brian B Moore

Jimmy Paul Strickland

Donald Francis Ferguson

Jen-Yao Chung

John F Isenberg, Jr

Leonidas Georgiadis

Christos N Nikolaou

Christos Nicholas Nikolaou

A resource allocation manager and technique for servers within a computer system. Resources are initially allocated to servers and in order to enhance system performance, resources are reallocated based on a minimization of the maximum performance index. In one example, the server with the largest performance index is allocated additional resources and the server with the smallest performance index loses some of its resources.

Goal-oriented resource allocation manager and performance index

A shared coupling facility contains system lock management (SLM) means for supporting a distributed locking protocol used by a plurality of sharing lock managers each executing on a processor having access to the shared memory and to any other processors in the processor complex. A request to lock a resource shared among the lock managers is first checked against a local hash table and then, if necessary, forwarded to the system lock management means in the shared memory for synchronous or asynchronous processing. List structures are maintained in the shared coupling facility to support the protocol, and are used by the system lock management means to record data recovery status. The sharing lock managers interact with the SLM means to control/manage lock contention, waiter queueing, and compatibility processing.

Method and apparatus for distributed locking of shared data, employing a

A semi-dynamic load balancer for a transaction processing system reallocates transaction types among computers in the system as a group rather than as individual transactions. Statistical data is accumulated in an affinity matrix which records the number of times a transaction type i was blocked by transaction type j was holding a lock on a data item that transaction type i wanted to access. When an overloaded computer is detected, transaction types are reallocated on the computers of the system according to a transaction type routing table which is updated based on data from the affinity matrix.

Semi-dynamic load balancer for periodically reassigning new transactions

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