International Business Machines Corporation

Kazuhisa Misono

Takashi Yonezawa

Masaharu Sakamoto

Kazutoshi Sugimoto

Akihiro Kaneko

Makoto Miyakawa

Hideaki Iwasaki

Koichi Kamijoh

Miyuki Katsuki

[Object] To provide a system capable of performing optimum job scheduling in respect of the types and utilization of computers as well as the types of jobs, and readily accommodating changes to the system configuration, in a grid computing system. [Constitution] A center serverwhich requests process servers on a grid computing network to execute jobs includes a scheduler sectionwhich assigns a job to be executed to a process server and issues a job execution request, and a PS agent sectionwhich manages information about the process serversreceives a request issued by the scheduler sectionand sends the request to the process serverto which the requested job has been assigned, depending on the operating status and access type of the process server

Computer system, servers constituting the same, and job execution control method and program

Provided is a system which manages a user community provided in an information processing system, in which user community information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference. The system includes a storage section which stores an audit policy defining contents of information to be permitted to be registered in each of a plurality of communities, by associating the audit policy with each of the communities; a detection section which detects a community to which information is provided in response to provision of the information by a user; and a registration control section which inhibits registration of information, provided by a user, in a detected user community on condition that the information violates an audit policy corresponding to the user community.

Managing community provided in information processing system

A method in one embodiment is performed at least in part at a server in a network file system that includes said server and a plurality of clients connected by a network, the method comprising: receiving a data write request from one client; selecting a client as a write object of said data from the other clients according to a condition of said one client stored in advance and/or conditions of said other clients; and transmitting said data write request to the client selected as a write object. Additional systems, methods and computer program products are also presented.

Network file system

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Kazuhisa Misono