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US20080271061 Managing Multiple Data Processing Systems Using Existing Heterogeneous Systems Management Software  
A common consolidation management application provides an interface to the multiple different system management software applications and at least one user input console. An adapter in each of the...
US20080271056 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DEVICE SELECTION  
Provided are a system and article of manufacture for device selection. A command is generated in a host, wherein the command is for a library manager not directly connected to the host. A device is...
US20080271055 PROTOCOL FOR COMMUNICATION OF DATA STRUCTURES  
A system and method are provided for communicating information in a data structure between applications. According to the method, a description of a data structure is sent from a first application...
US20080271049 METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THIN-CLIENTS AND MESSAGE FORMAT SERVICE (MFS)-BASED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IMS) APPLICATIONS  
A method is disclosed for facilitating conversational and non-conversational transactions between thin-clients and MFS-based IMS applications. The method includes storing conversation attributes...
US20080271040 Method for managing message flow in a multithreaded, message flow environment  
In one form, a method for managing message flow includes processing messages concurrently by processing nodes in a computer software application. The processing nodes include at least one set of...
US20080271029 Thread Scheduling with Weak Preemption Policy  
Thread scheduling with a weak preemption policy is provided. The scheduler receives requests from newly ready work. The scheduler adds a “preempt value” to the current work's priority so that...
US20080271026 Systems and Media for Controlling Temperature in a Computer System  
Systems and media for controlling temperature of a system are disclosed. More particularly, hardware, software and/or firmware for controlling the temperature of a computer system are disclosed....
US20080271016 HYPERVISOR WITH CLONING-AWARENESS NOTIFICATIONS  
A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing virtual machine imaging. The method includes receiving a request for an imaging operation associated with at least...
US20080271012 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING CUSTOMIZED DOCUMENTATION FOR A SOFTWARE PRODUCT  
A system and method for creating customized documentation is disclosed. The method comprises storing one or more documents such that each of the one or more documents corresponds to one of a...
US20080271011 Method and Apparatus for a Client Call Service  
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for providing access to an application. An operating system is identified on the client responsive to receiving a request for access to the...
US20080271003 Balancing Computational Load Across a Plurality of Processors  
Computational load is balanced across a plurality of processors. Source code subtasks are compiled into byte code subtasks whereby the byte code subtasks are translated into processor-specific...
US20080270995 Method for Automatic Detection of Build Regressions  
A method and apparatus for automatically performing regression processing on trace data are provided. With the apparatus and method, call tree data structures are generated for two or more...
US20080270988 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING A PROGRAM IN A MULTI-THREAD ENVIRONMENT  
A method and system for debugging a program in multithread environment which interrupts the running of a debuggee program begins by replacing the instruction at the position at which a breakpoint...
US20080270982 METHOD FOR AUTOMATING VARIABLES IN END-USER PROGRAMMING SYSTEM  
A method for automating variables in an end-user programming system is disclosed. The end-user programming system comprises a script, a shared repository, at least one database, a recorder, an...
US20080270976 MANAGEMENT OF GRAPHICAL INFORMATION NOTES  
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein information is associated with a program element that is capable of being processed in a software environment generated by an...
US20080270968 APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING VERTICALLY COUPLED NOISE CONTROL THROUGH A MESH PLANE IN AN ELECTRONIC PACKAGE DESIGN  
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing vertically coupled noise control through a mesh plane in an electronic package design. Electronic package physical...
US20080270960 METHOD FOR INCORPORATING MILLER CAPACITANCE EFFECTS IN DIGITAL CIRCUITS FOR AN ACCURATE TIMING ANALYSIS  
A method for performing a static timing analysis on a circuit that includes gates and their respective interconnects by incorporating the effect of Miller capacitance on timing. A primitive gate is...
US20080270943 COLOR AND SYMBOL CODED VISUAL CUES FOR RELATING SCREEN ITEMS TO EACH OTHER  
Described is a system and a computer program product for visually delineating a relationship between diverse, but related graphical objects in a graphical user interface. An icon that has specified...
US20080270935 SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CATEGORY SEPARATION IN A LIST OF DOCUMENTS  
A system is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The...
US20080270929 Federating Legacy/Remote Content into a Central Network Console  
Content from multiple remote/legacy consoles is aggregated within a central console to provide a single point-of-access for managing remote resources. Preferred embodiments deploy the central...
US20080270926 POINTER DRAG PATH OPERATIONS  
A graphical user interface allows performing operations simply by dragging a first object over a second object. One or more attributes of the second object are effectively “picked up” by virtue...
US20080270916 METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INITIATING AN INSTANT MESSAGING CHAT SESSION BASED ON A CALENDAR ENTRY  
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for automatically initiating an instant messaging (IM) chat session based on a calendar entry. A user's IM client...
US20080270878 CACHE ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING RAID I/O OPERATIONS  
The embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, etc. for a cache arrangement for improving RAID I/O operations. More specifically, a method begins by partitioning a data object into a...
US20080270864 DIFFERENCE SIGNAL PATH TEST AND CHARACTERIZATION CIRCUIT  
A test circuit and programmable voltage divider that may be used in the test circuit. The programmable voltage divider develops a voltage difference signal that may be digitally selected. The test...
US20080270860 Integrated Circuit for Writing and Reading Registers Distributed Across a Semiconductor Chip  
An integrated circuit on a semiconductor chip with a plurality of registers distributed across the semiconductor chip. The registers are writeable and readable. The integrated circuit comprises a...
US20080270853 Method of Routing I/O Adapter Error Messages in a Multi-Host Environment  
A method and apparatus is provided for routing error messages in a distributed computer system comprising multiple root nodes, and further comprising one or more PCI switches and one or more I/O...
US20080270852 MULTI-DIRECTIONAL FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM  
An apparatus, program product and method checks for nodal faults in a group of nodes comprising a center node and all adjacent nodes. The center node concurrently communicates with the immediately...
US20080270843 CONVOLUTION-ENCODED DATA STORAGE ON A REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DEVICES  
A method, system and article of manufacture for the storing convolution-encoded data on a redundant array of independent storage devices (RAID) is described. The convolution-encoded data comprises...
US20080270838 DISTRIBUTED, FAULT-TOLERANT AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM  
A method and system for achieving highly available, fault-tolerant execution of components in a distributed computing system, without requiring the writer of these components to explicitly write...
US20080270827 RECOVERING DIAGNOSTIC DATA AFTER OUT-OF-BAND DATA CAPTURE FAILURE  
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to out-of-band management of system fault handling and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer...
US20080270823 FAST NODE FAILURE DETECTION VIA DISK BASED LAST GASP MECHANISM  
A method for communicating node liveness in a multinode data processing system employs an operating system function that provides a degree of self-awareness in “sensing” an imminent but still...
US20080270822 DATA REPLICA SELECTOR  
There is provided a method and system for replicating data at another location. The system includes a source node that contains data in a data storage area. The source node is coupled to a network...
US20080270821 RECOVERING FROM ERRORS IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM  
A system and method of recovering from errors in a data processing system. The data processing system includes one or more processor cores coupled to one or more memory controllers. The one or more...
US20080270788 EXTENSION OF X.509 CERTIFICATES TO SIMULTANEOUSLY SUPPORT MULTIPLE CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS  
A technique permitting an X.509 certificate to simultaneously support more than one cryptographic algorithm. An alterative public key and alternative signature are provided as extensions in the...
US20080270775 MANAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONS AND HARDWARE INTERRUPTIONS BY AN EXCEPTION SIMULATOR  
Exception handling is simulated. An exception simulator is employed to simulate exceptions generated from routines simulating operations. The exception simulator provides an indication of the...
US20080270766 Method To Reduce The Number Of Load Instructions Searched By Stores and Snoops In An Out-Of-Order Processor  
A method for reducing the number of load instructions in the load reorder queue (LRQ) that are searched when a load instruction is executed by a processor, including dispatching the load...
US20080270762 Method, System and Computer Program Product for Register Management in a Simulation Enviroment  
A method for register management in a simulation environment including receiving an instruction from an instruction unit decode pipeline. An address generation interlock (AGI) function is executed...
US20080270756 SHIFT SIGNIFICAND OF DECIMAL FLOATING POINT DATA  
A decimal floating point finite number in a decimal floating point format is composed from the number in a different format. A decimal floating point format includes fields to hold information...
US20080270754 USING FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) TECHNOLOGY WITH A MICROPROCESSOR FOR RECONFIGURABLE, INSTRUCTION LEVEL HARDWARE ACCELERATION  
A method for dynamically programming Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in a coprocessor, the coprocessor coupled to a processor, includes: beginning an execution of an application by the...
US20080270748 HARDWARE SIMULATION ACCELERATOR DESIGN AND METHOD THAT EXPLOITS A PARALLEL STRUCTURE OF USER MODELS TO SUPPORT A LARGER USER MODEL SIZE  
A system and method for design verification and, more particularly, a hardware simulation accelerator design and method that exploits a parallel structure of user models to support a large user...
US20080270742 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE STRUCTURE REORGANIZATION  
A method and system to reorganize a storage structure by generating correlation data that represents relationships between storage blocks of a storage structure, generating a block allocation...
US20080270741 STRUCTURE FOR PROGRAM DIRECTED MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS  
Design structures for program directed memory access patterns. A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process, the design structure including a computer memory...
US20080270735 Association of Host Translations that are Associated to an Access Control Level on a PCI Bridge that Supports Virtualization  
A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a system image within a multiple system image virtual server to directly expose a portion, or all, of its...
US20080270731 Memory Request/Grant Daemons in Virtual Nodes for Moving Subdivided Local Memory Space from VN to VN in Nodes of a Massively Parallel Computer System  
A memory management mechanism a nodal having multiple processors in a massively parallel computer system dynamically configures nodal memory on demand. A respective variable-sized subdivision of...
US20080270726 Apparatus and Method for Providing Remote Access Redirect Capability in a Channel Adapter of a System Area Network  
A method and apparatus for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism by which a host channel...
US20080270722 Method and Apparatus for Decreasing Shared Memory Data Corruption  
The shared memory includes a header section and a data section, wherein said header section includes at least two headers in which control information is stored. The method comprises the steps of:...
US20080270716 METHODS FOR ENHANCED FLIGHT DATA RECORDING  
Flight data indicating a history of what has happened in a virtual memory system's programs is recorded. Memory residency of symbolic information associated with the flight data and is determined,...
US20080270702 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN EFFICIENT MULTI-PATH TRACE CACHE DESIGN  
A novel trace cache design and organization to efficiently store and retrieve multi-path traces. A goal is to design a trace cache, which is capable of storing multi-path traces without significant...
US20080270683 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DRAM CONCURRENT REFRESH ENGINE WITH PROCESSOR INTERFACE  
Systems and methods for a DRAM concurrent refresh engine with processor interface. In exemplary embodiments, memory cells requiring periodic refresh at least once each for a specified refresh...
US20080270644 SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING THE AVAILABILITY OF PATHS TO A DEVICE  
Disclosed is a system and program for selecting one of multiple proposed paths to a device. For each proposed path, a determination is made of a number of components the proposed path shares with...