International Business Machines Corporation

Simon Ashley Field

Christian Facciorusso

Yigal Hoffner

William T O'Connell

John W Bell

Jason Michael Gartner

Paulo Roberto Rosa Pereira

Randall R Holmes

Nancy A Kopp

Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.

Workflow system and method

Virtual solution architecture for computer data systems. In one aspect, providing an architecture for a computer data system includes creating a virtual solution architecture that includes a plurality of building blocks, each building block characterized by balanced operation, and mapping the virtual solution architecture to a physical solution architecture for the computer data system. Another aspect includes providing at least one balanced configuration unit (BCU) in a computer data system, the BCU including at least one balanced partition unit (BPU) that includes computer resources to provide balanced operation for the BPU.

Computer data systems implemented using a virtual solution architecture

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Steeple Claydon, United Kingdom

Simon Ashley Field