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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yiyu L. Chen, Rueschlikon, CH;

Antonius P. Engbersen, Rueschlikon, CH;

Sebastiano Spicuglia, Lugano, CH;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/34 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments of this disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes accessing a set of two or more activity logs associated with two or more virtual machines, each activity log being associated with a corresponding virtual machine. A computational capacity is calculated, by a computer processor, for each of the virtual machines based at least in part on the activity logs. A rank is calculated for each of the virtual machines, where a first rank calculated for a first virtual machine is based, at least in part, on a monetary cost of the first virtual machine and the calculated computational capacity of the first virtual machine.


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