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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2002
Clifford A. Mccarthy, Richardson, TX (US);
Thomas E. Turicchi, Dallas, TX (US);
Steven R. Landherr, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Clifford A. McCarthy, Richardson, TX (US);
Thomas E. Turicchi, Dallas, TX (US);
Steven R. Landherr, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for managing allocation of a computer resource to at least one partition of a plurality of partitions of a multiple partition computer system, the system comprising: a plurality of work load managers, with one work load manager associated with each partition of the plurality of partitions, wherein each work load manager determines a resource request value for the computer resource based on at least one priority assigned to its partition associated with the computer resource; and a partition load manager that is operative to form an allocation value for each respective partition based on a respective resource request value; wherein the system apportions the computer resource among the plurality of partitions based on the allocation values.