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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
May. 23, 1997
Liana Liyow Fong, Irvington, NY (US);
Ajei Sarat Gopal, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Nayeem Islam, Thornwood, NY (US);
Andreas Leonidas Prodromidis, New York, NY (US);
Mark Steven Squillante, Pound Ridge, NY (US);
IBM Corporation, , NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides the mechanism, hereinafter referred to as Flexible Dynamic Partitioning (FDP), to allocate and reallocate resources among scheduling schemes of many types for multicomputing environments. Resources can include, but are not limited to, processors, disks and communications connections. Partitioning of resources can be initiated by both application and system triggers. Once dynamic partitioning is triggered, FDP allows a partition to invoke a set of resource allocation functions associated with its partition. The reallocation function performs a set of resource matchings and determine the necessary resource movement among partitions.