Inventor

BRENNER LARRY BERT

US38 patents

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BRENNER LARRY BERT

IBM

Method for determining idle processor load balancing in a multiple processors system

Apparatus and method for workload management using class shares and tiers

Apparatus and method for starvation load balancing using a global run queue in a multiple run queue system

Apparatus and method for periodic load balancing in a multiple run queue system

Controlling allocation of system resources with an enhanced priority calculation

Apparatus and method for initial load balancing in a multiple run queue system

System for preventing periodic load balancing if processor associated with lightest local run queue has benefited from idle processor load balancing within a determined time period

Program product to effect barrier synchronization in a distributed computing environment

Managing membership of a domain of processors in a distributed computing environment

System for utilizing batch requests to present membership changes to process groups

Time slicing in a shared partition

Apparatus and method for load balancing of fixed priority threads in a multiple run queue environment

Utilizing batch requests to present membership changes to process groups

Multiprocessor load balancing system for prioritizing threads and assigning threads into one of a plurality of run queues based on a priority band and a current load of the run queue

Program product for an application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

System for barrier synchronization wherein members dynamic voting controls the number of synchronization phases of protocols and progression to each subsequent phase

Application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

System for serializing actions of independent process groups

Method for serializing actions of independent process groups

Barrier synchronization method wherein members dynamic voting controls the number of synchronization phases of protocols and progression to each new phase

System and method for thread scheduling with weak preemption policy

System for preserving logical partitions of distributed parallel processing system after re-booting by mapping nodes to their respective sub-environments

System partitioning for massively parallel processors

Apparatus for minimizing lock contention in a multiple processor system with multiple run queues when determining the threads priorities

System and method for improved complex storage locks

Time slicing in a shared partition

Program product for serializating actions of independent process groups

Use of daemons in a partitioned massively parallel processing system environment

System, apparatus and method of enhancing priority boosting of scheduled threads

Implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock

Automatic detection of excessive interrupt-disabled operating system code

System and method to improve harvesting of zombie processes in an operating system

Apparatus and a method for creating isolated sub-environments using host names and aliases

Method and apparatus for awakening client threads in a multiprocessor data processing system

Atomically updating 64 bit fields in the 32 bit AIX kernel

Program product for an application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms

BRENNER LARRY BERT

Memory class based heap partitioning

INTERNAT BUSINESS MACHIENS COR

Atomically updating 64 bit fields in the 32 bit AIX kernel