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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2008
Hirotoshi Akaike, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhisa Fujimoto, Koganei, JP;
Shuji Nakamura, Machida, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A computing system includes a plurality of computing units, a tiered storage unit including a first storage medium and a second storage medium having a transfer rate lower than that of the first storage medium, and connected to a plurality of the computing units; and a system management unit connected to a plurality of the computing units and the tiered storage unit. The system management unit creates a computation job execution schedule for a plurality of the computing units or obtains the computation job execution schedule from other unit in the computing system, plans a data migration in the tiered storage unit according to the execution schedule using a predetermined method, and instructs the tiered storage unit to migrate a data based on the plan.