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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2008
Ea-ee Jan, Ardsley, NY (US);
Benoit Emmanuel Maison, Wavre, BE;
Ea-Ee Jan, Ardsley, NY (US);
Benoit Emmanuel Maison, Wavre, BE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of updating an application in a processing system, the processing system including a plurality of computing resource units wherein at least two of the resource units are initially allocated to a first application, and wherein the processing system has insufficient resources to simultaneously run both of the first application and a second application at full capacity, the method including de-allocating fewer than all of the resource units allocated to the first application, then allocating at least one resource unit to the second application, and then de-allocating at least one resource unit from the first application.