The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael J Manos

James Robert Hamilton

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Clarence T Tegreene

Edward K Y Jung

Jordin T Kare

Nathan P Myhrvold

Robert W Lord

Charles Whitmer

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Craig J Mundie

Howard Lee Davidson

Robert Victor Welland

Richard F Rashid

Burton Jordan Smith

Arne M Josefsberg

Kenneth Lustig

Alastair Wolman

Sharad Agarwal

Ming Zhang

Feng Zhao

Michael Richard Fortin

John David Dunagan

Behrooz Chitsaz

David Rogers Treadwell, Iii

Mike Neil

Rebecca Ann Norlander

James J Freely

A data center for executing a data processing application includes processing units, sub-units or servers. Each of the processing units, sub-units or servers can execute a part or all of the data processing application. The processing units, sub-units or servers are electrical disjoint with respect to data communications, but can communicate with each other over free space optical links.

Data center with free-space optical communications

An exemplary system includes a front-end component to receive requests for resources in a data center and configured to associate each request with identifying information, to locate one or more resources for each request and to store, in a log file, the identifying information and information about the location of the one or more resources; one or more distributed computation and storage components to acquire log file information and configured to analyze log information to decide if one or more resources associated with one or more requests should be migrated to a data center in a different geographical location; and a location service component to receive decisions made by the one or more distributed computation and storage components and configured to inform the front-end component when a decision causes one or more resources to be migrated to a data center in a different geographical location to thereby allow the front-end component to re-direct future requests for the one or more migrated resources to the data center in the different geographical location. Various other devices, systems and methods are also described.

Techniques for resource location and migration across data centers

An exemplary data center interface for distributing and monitoring Web applications includes a specification that specifies a call statement to distribute one or more components of a Web application to one or more data centers and a call statement to report metrics associated with performance of the Web application. An exemplary data center interface for associating advertisements with distributed Web applications includes a specification that specifies a call statement and one or more call statement parameters to associate an advertisement with one or more distributed Web applications based on at least one criterion. Various other devices, systems and methods are also described.

Data center programming and application distribution interface

An exemplary component for managing requests for resources in a data center includes a service request module for receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services and a resource module to monitor resources in a data center and to match received requests to resources. Such a component optionally includes an application programming interface (API) that provides for sending information in response to an API call made by a service. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.

Resource equalization for inter- and intra- data center operations

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