International Business Machines Corporation

Cornell University

Exostellar, Inc.

Zhiming Shen

Robbert Van Renesse

Hakim Weatherspoon

Hui Lei

Andrzej P Kochut

Alexei A Karve

Minkyong Kim

Sai Zeng

Han Chen

Zhe Zhang

Christopher Charles Young

Karin Murthy

Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan

A method for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes includes receiving, by a container engine executing on a first machine, an instruction to instantiate a container image on the first machine. The container engine transmits, to a modified container runtime process, executing on the first machine, the instruction to instantiate the container image on the first machine. The modified container runtime process generates, on the first machine, a shim process representing the instantiated container image. The shim process forwards the instruction to an agent executing on a second machine, via a proxy connected to the agent via a network connection. The agent directs instantiation of the container image as a containerized process. A scheduler component executing on the first machine determines to migrate the containerized process to a third machine. The scheduler component directs migration of the containerized process to the third machine, during execution of the containerized process.

Methods and systems for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes

A method in one embodiment comprises implementing a kernel-based isolation layer, configuring a software container on the kernel-based isolation layer to include a dedicated operating system kernel as a library operating system, and executing one or more user processes in the software container. The method is performed by a cloud-based processing platform, an enterprise processing platform, or other type of processing platform comprising a plurality of processing devices, with each such processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The library operating system illustratively runs in the software container at a privilege level that is the same as a privilege level of the one or more user processes executing in the software container. The library operating system is illustratively configured to support automatic translation of binaries of the one or more user processes in conjunction with converting system calls into corresponding function calls.

Method and system for improving software container performance and isolation

Various embodiments collect unproductive resources in a network infrastructure. In one embodiment, data relating to resources of a network infrastructure is collected. An analytics model is selected based on a type of the collected data. The selected analytics model is executed to classify a resource unproductive or productive, and to assign a corresponding confidence level. An action plan for each confidence level is determined and the action plan is executed for the resource. The collected data may include resource utilization information, hypervisor information, cloud related meta-data, user knowledge and system knowledge. When data is only resource data, a resource mining model is selected. When the data includes reference data, a reference mining model is selected. When the data comprises reference data and resource data, a combined mining model is selected.

Enterprise cloud garbage collector

A system and an article of manufacture for de-duplicating virtual machine image accesses include identifying one or more identical blocks in two or more images in a virtual machine image repository, generating a block map for mapping different blocks with identical content into a same block, deploying a virtual machine image by reconstituting an image from the block map and fetching any unique blocks remotely on-demand, and de-duplicating virtual machine image accesses by storing the deployed virtual machine image in a local disk cache.

Virtual machine image access de-duplication

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