International Business Machines Corporation

Green Market Square Limited

Tatsushi Inagaki

Hideaki Komatsu

Yohei Ueda

Takuya Nakaike

Hiroaki Nakamura

Kohichi Kamijoh

Sachiko Yoshihama

Akira Koseki

Takeshi Ogasawara

Qi Zhang

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Moriyoshi Ohara

Tatsuhiro Chiba

Rei Odaira

Toshio Suganuma

Sunyanan Choochotkaew

Chun Hui Suen

Yu Chin Fabian Lim

Marcelo Carneiro Do Amaral

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain request comprising a timestamp added by one or more endorsing nodes included within a blockchain network, identifying that the timestamp added by an endorsing node from among the one or more endorsing nodes is a modification to a previously added timestamp provided by the computing node, determining a reputation value for the endorsing node based on a difference between the timestamp added by the endorsing node and the previously added timestamp provided by the computing node, and transmitting the determined reputation value of the endorsing node to an ordering node within the blockchain network.

Blockchain timestamp agreement

A computer-implemented method for detecting bottlenecks in microservice cloud systems is provided including identifying a plurality of nodes within one or more clusters associated with a plurality of containers, collecting thread profiles and network connectivity data by periodically dumping stacks of threads and identifying network connectivity status of one or more containers of the plurality of containers, classifying the stacks of threads based on a plurality of thread states, constructing a microservice dependency graph from the network connectivity data, aligning the plurality of nodes to bar graphs to depict an average number of working threads in a corresponding microservice, and generating, on a display, an illustration outlining the plurality of thread states, each of the plurality of thread states having a different representation.

Detecting layered bottlenecks in microservices

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain request from a client application, determining a network latency between the client application and the endorsing node based on a network path between the client application and the endorsing node, extracting a timestamp from the blockchain request, determining whether the extracted timestamp is invalid based on the network latency between the client application and the endorsing node, and in response to determining that the timestamp is valid, generating an endorsement for the blockchain request and transmitting the endorsement to the client application.

A method is provided for building calling context trees of an application to identify a thread or a device affecting a throughput of a transaction relating to the application. The method obtains profiles of call stacks of multiple threads. The method obtains wake-up profiles which are the call stacks of a notifier thread and a waiter thread, from among the multiple threads, in a case that the waiter thread leaves from a sleep state. The method builds the calling context trees to indicate transitions of methods tracing callee relations and wake-up relations based on the profiles of the call stacks and the wake-up profiles, wherein each method is represented by a node having an average thread number. The method extracts and displays tree portions which are transitively reachable from a calling context tree for the transaction and which include the thread or device affecting throughput.

Identifying software and hardware bottlenecks

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain request from a client application in a blockchain network, receiving validity information of a timestamp included in the blockchain request from one or more endorsing nodes in the blockchain network, modifying the timestamp included in the blockchain request based on the validity information received from the one or more endorsing nodes, ordering the blockchain request among a group of blockchain requests based on the modified timestamp with respect to timestamps of other blockchain requests in the group, and storing the ordered group of blockchain requests within a data block among a hash-linked chain of data blocks.

A system is provided for splitting a live-range of a variable in frequently executed regions of program instructions. The live-range of a variable is split into multiple sub-ranges, each of which can be assigned to a different register or spilled into memory. The amount of spill code is reduced in frequently used regions of code by coalescing the live ranges based on profile information obtained after splitting the live ranges at every join and fork point in a control flow graph.

Profile-based global live-range splitting

A computer program product is provided for splitting a live-range of a variable in frequently executed regions of program instructions. The live-range of a variable is split into multiple sub-ranges, each of which can be assigned to a different register or spilled into memory. The amount of spill code is reduced in frequently used regions of code by coalescing the live ranges based on profile information obtained after splitting the live ranges at every join and fork point in a control flow graph.

A method and system are provided for splitting a live-range of a variable in frequently executed regions of program instructions. The live-range of a variable is split into multiple sub-ranges, each of which can be assigned to a different register or spilled into memory. The amount of spill code is reduced in frequently used regions of code by coalescing the live ranges based on profile information obtained after splitting the live ranges at every join and fork point in a control flow graph.

A method of allowing exclusive access to shared data by a computing device and a computer readable article embodying instructions for executing the method. The method includes: reading from a storage unit into a memory a program including a code for execution in a critical section and an instruction to write a value into or read a value from a shared data area in the memory; acquiring a lock on the critical section before start of a first instruction in the critical section; writing a value into a thread-local area in the memory in response to an instruction to write the value into the shared data area; writing into the shared data area the value written into the thread-local area upon completion of a final instruction in the critical section; and releasing the lock on the critical section, thereby allowing exclusive access to shared data.

Method for allowing exclusive access to shared data

The present invention relates to allocating registers to variables in order to compile a program. In an embodiment of the present invention a compiler apparatus stores interference information indicating an interference relationship between variables, selects a register and allocates the register to each variables in accordance with a predetermined procedure, without allocating the same register to a set of variables having interference relationships. The compiler further replaces multiple variables having the same register allocated thereto with a new variable and generates an interference relationship by merging the interference relationships each concerning one of multiple variables. The compiler further updates interference information according to the generated interference relationship and allocates to each variable in the program using the new variable a register, selected in accordance with the predetermined procedure without allocating the same register to a set of variables having the interference relationships, based on the updated interference information.

Technique for allocating register to variable for compiling

A method for processing a multidimensional array object in which a multidimensional array is implemented by an array of array objects. The multidimensional array object comprises array objects which constitute the multidimensional array. Flags representing that it is possible to optimize a process for elements of the multidimensional array object are added as additional information. The flags are stored in a storage device (main memory for instance). Then, a machine code corresponding to a state of the flags is executed.

Method and device to process multidimensional array objects

A program optimization method for converting program source code written in a programming language into machine language includes steps of: analyzing a target program and detecting an exception generative instruction, which may generate an exception, and exception generation detection instructions, which brunches a process to an exception process when an exception occurrence condition is detected and an exception has occurred. The method also includes steps of dividing the exception generation detection instructions into first instructions, for the detection of exception occurrence conditions, and into second instructions, for branching processes to the exception process when the exception occurrence conditions are detected; and establishing dependencies among program instructions, so that when one of the exception occurrence conditions is detected the process is shifted from a first instruction to a second instruction, and so that when none of the exception occurrence conditions are detected, the process is shifted from a first instruction to an exception generative instruction.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tatsushi Inagaki