Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Ulsi Engineering Corp.

Nobutoshi Sagawa

Itaru Nishizawa

Shigekazu Inohara

Hiroaki Odawara

Naoki Watanabe

Shinji Fujiwara

Yoshimasa Masuoka

Akira Shimizu

Mamoru Sugie

Frederico Buchholz Maciel

Aki Tomita

Yoshifumi Takamoto

Yoshio Suzuki

Yuichi Kobayashi

Tsuneyuki Imaki

Tetsuya Uemura

Ken Naono

Sigeo Ihara

Toshiyuki Ukai

Chisato Konno

Katsuro Kikuchi

Yoji Taniguchi

Yukio Umetani

Satoshi Itoh

Shunji Takubo

Tomoyuki Mochizuki

Mikio Nagasawa

Tadashi Ohta

Neil Hurley

Donal Finn

Susumu Yamaga

Kirin Ka

Masahiko Hirao

In a process control system according to the present invention, a history record table, a history record relationship table, a process table, and a process relationship table are provided. The history record table stores information on a history record. The history record relationship table stores information on a history record relationship. The process table stores information on a process. The process relationship table stores information on a process relationship. When a history record is received, history records of the previous process and the next process are searched. Then, both of the history record relationship between a history record of the present process and a history record of the previous process and the history record relationship between the history record of the present process and a history record of the next process are created. Then, using the process table, the process relationship table, and history record information that has been already collected, history records that have not been received are estimated and then are displayed according to work order. With such arrangement, it is possible to trace a product item correctly even when some of history records are not registered since time required to register a history is varied depending on the processes or for other reasons, or there are not some of necessary history records.

Process control system and process control method

There is provided a transaction processing system for providing plural services according to service level contracts, the system comprising: an SLA database for storing contract conditions defined for each of the services provided; request queues for storing processing requests sent from clients for the services provided while putting the respective services into a particular order; queuing condition detection module for obtaining waiting conditions of the processing requests stored in the request queues; and a scheduler for deciding priorities to the processing requests input from the client to the transaction processing system by referring to the contract conditions and the waiting conditions of the processing requests.

Transaction processing system having service level control capabilities

A method for rapidly executing a series of remote procedure calls between a client and a server, comprising an RPC optimizer () that inputs an IDL source code () and client source codes (', . . . ) so as to define as a new remote procedure a group of remote procedures to be performed by the client in an additional server source code (). In turn, the RPC optimizer outputs a new IDL source code () to which an interface of the remote procedure is added, and new client source codes (&#x2032;, . . . ) modified so as to use the remote procedure. This reduces communications involving a plurality of remote procedures to a single communication pass, thereby implementing high-speed communication between the client and the server.

Method for optimizing remote procedure call (RPC) and program execution method by use of the optimized RPC

The invention relates to a method of virtualizing a plurality of network storages into a single-view file system for a client and obtains information about an object's storage location without inquiring of a resource manager. The method determines a network storage that should store an object based on a hash value generated from a logical identifier for the object to be accessed. While accessing the object, the method computes the hash value for the object's logical identifier to determine a network storage that should process an access request. Consequently, the method eliminates the need to inquire the object's storage location when the access request is issued. Further, the method eliminates the need to maintain the object's storage location when the number of servers is increased or decreased, thus providing easy management.

System and method for virtualizing a distributed network storage as a single-view file system

In a file transfer system, a file stored in a server computer is transmitted to a client computer through a network. A portable mobile apparatus also connectable to the network has a transmission requesting means for requesting the server computer that the user of the mobile apparatus be authenticated and a desired file be transmitted from the server computer to the client computer. The server computer has a communication control unit for transmitting the desired file requested by the mobile apparatus to the client computer after authenticating the user of the mobile apparatus.

File transfer system for secure remote file accesses

A storage comprising an object access module for the shared part for implementing advanced I/O provides an interface () for registering and deleting object description data declaring how to store objects within a second storage, in order to reduce the development cost of modules for implementing functions. Also, in order to reduce the total cost of ownership, modules are transferred to the storage through a management computer. The present invention allows the storage for contiguously providing functions effective to a vast range of applications to be provided with lower development cost as well as lower total cost of ownership.

Method and apparatus for implementing extensible network-attached secondary storage

Disclosed herein is a method for correcting programs without discontinuing service that is running on a logical computer. A patch managercopies programs and data under control of a logical computer() from one disk to another disk and activates a logical computer(). The logical computer() corrects the copied programs by using a correction program in the copied programs. Then, the patch managerswitches control of a network from the logical computer() to the logical computer() in order to switch operation from the logical computer() to the logical computer().

Method for correcting a program running on a computer system

The present invention improves the scalability of application servers and database servers in Web systems, thereby providing higher cost-performance Web systems. The session state of an application is stored in a clustered cache database as required. This enables another application running on an arbitrary cluster server to read the stored session state from the clustered cache database to continue the processing of the application. In addition, a cache database cluster in which data can be updated on the cluster servers is configured, thereby providing a mechanism of causing them to synchronize with the database servers as necessary. Furthermore, a mechanism of adding cache databases to the cache database cluster, thereby enabling the system to respond to an increase in database access load.

Web system having clustered application servers and clustered databases

Method and apparatus for query processing including an optimization controller, responding to a query from an application related to an database, and controlling optimization processing of the query. A query classification definition and a query operation direction associated with the query classification definition are defined on a storing means. The query classification definition classifies the queries according to classifications and attributes including environment for use, time for use, database to be accessed, and the amount of data that is processed. The query operation direction defines strength of the direction including &ldquo;Force&rdquo;, &ldquo;Recommended&rdquo;, &ldquo;Neutral&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Deny&rdquo;, which is used to select operation at the time of query execution from several alternatives. During optimization processing of the received query, the system controls the optimization processing according to the query control information that has been set, enabling control of DBMS operation in a batch for two or more queries without modifying the applications.

Method and system for query processing

A query processing system in which a virtual table to enable multiple mapping to a plurality of databases is provided in a data processing system to receive a query from an application program and partial replicas as copies of part of the data in the virtual table is prepared in storage so that the whole or part of a query can be processed using the partial replicas. For query units which cannot be processed using the partial replica, means to select an appropriate distributed join method and optimization to push down query processing to real databases as far as possible are used. The system allows transparent access to multiple different real databases according to access conditions without changing the column to be accessed in the virtual table or switching the virtual table, thereby eliminating the need to create a new application for each newly developed service.

System and method for query processing using virtual table interface

A data request analysis unit for accepting and analyzing a request from a client computer, a data conversion program generation unit, and a data conversion unit are provided in a magnetic disk apparatus, the data conversion program generation unit downloads a program module by way of a network as required based on the analysis result obtained by use of the data request analysis unit to generate a data conversion program, and the data conversion unit downloads the conversion program, and converts the type of the data read out from the magnetic memory medium by use of the program, and directly transfers the converted data to the client computer by way of a network interface, thereby, the present invention provides a general purpose magnetic disk apparatus which is capable of flexibly accommodating the request from the client computer, the scalability of the whole system is improved because the data is converted in the magnetic disk apparatus, and the process efficiency of the client computer is improved.

Active memory and memory control method, and heterogeneous data integration use system using the memory and method

Each of a plurality of simulation programs is linked with a data conversion library and is executed as a simulation process. A data conversion process is executed in correspondence with each simulation process. In exchanging data resulted from simulation by the simulation process of one of the simulation programs with simulation processes of the other simulation programs, the data conversion process provided for a sending simulation process determines a receiving simulation process to which the data is to be sent, and sends the data to the data conversion process corresponding to the receiving simulation process. The data conversion process for the receiving simulation process performs data conversion for absorbing difference between the base of the sending simulation process and the base of the receiving simulation process, and transfers the data after the conversion to the receiving simulation process.

Method of assisting execution of plural simulation programs for coupled

In order to enable monitoring of a computer of a monitoring target, by two or more computers by way of a network, without increasing the load of the computer of monitoring target, the capturing process invoked on each node of the parallel computer captures performance data, the collecting process invoked on a specific node collects these captured performance data, and transmits to the relaying process on the monitoring computer. If there is a display process and a logging process invoked on the same or different monitoring computers, the relaying process distributes the performance data to them. The display process displays the performance data for part of measurement items included in the distributed performance data on the display device. The logging process stores all the distributed performance data in the storage device.

Method of monitoring a computer system, featuring performance data

By using the wavelet method and the inverse Mallat transform of the wavelet theory, frequency analysis of large scale time series data is carried out at high speed while effectively utilizing the hardware of a parallel computer of distributed memory type. To be concrete, on the parallel computer of distributed memory type, data to be analyzed, a scaling function, and a Daubechies's progression are inputted to individual memories. Highest order frequency component parallel numerical integral operation is conducted to derive a frequency component of the highest order to be analyzed. Series low frequency component analyzing using the inverse Mallat transform is conducted to effect frequency analysis other than the highest frequency by using the inverse Mallat transform of the wavelet theory. Frequency data combining is conducted to put together frequencies derived by respective processors in an external memory.

Frequency analyzing method and apparatus for time series data

A program generating method for generating a FORTRAN program by use of a computer having the following steps of automatically selecting an optimal weight function for each equation of the system of partial differential equations including coupled plural variables and partial differential equations to effect a multiplication therebetween, performing a partial integration thereon, automatically selecting from a group of boundary conditions an optimal boundary condition for each partial differential equation to conduct a collation processing of the boundary condition, exchanging the order of the summation and the integration on the object variable to effect a discretize processing of the variable, assigning components to a coefficient matrix and a constant vector, and generating a FORTRAN program to solve the equations through a linear computation.

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Nobutoshi Sagawa