Systems and methods for grid agent management

• US 20070004292A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Subramaniam, Ravi, Clement, George
• Granted Patent: US 8,086,707 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/894
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

Systems and methods utilize directory services snap-ins to create, maintain, and interpret policies for controlling the execution of grid applications.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

reading one or more grid policies for a grid application;

determining a resource utilization; and

analyzing the resource utilization in accordance with the one or more grid polices to determine if the grid application is to be executed.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining one or more executable modules associated with the grid application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies define a set of one or more grid applications for execution on a grid client.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies define one or more resource limits.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies define a frequency for analyzing resource utilization in accordance with the one or more polices to determine if the grid application is to be executed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies provides the location of a central data repository to be used by the grid application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more policies defines an affinity level for the grid application.

8. A system comprising:

a set of one or more grid applications;

a policy agent to receive one or more grid policies for the grid application;

a grid client extension snap-in to read the one or more grid policies and to create grid application preferences for the set of one or more grid applications.

a grid agent to determine a resource utilization and to analyze the current resource utilization in accordance with the grid application preferences to determine if any of the grid applications are to be executed.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the directory extension snap-in conforms to a snap-in format for Active Directory.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the policy agent is operable to obtain one or more executable modules associated with the set of one or more grid applications.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more policies defines the set of one or more grid applications.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more policies define one or more resource limits.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more policies define a frequency for determining if any of the set of one or more grid applications are to be executed.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more policies provides the location of a central data repository to be used by a grid application in the set of one or more grid applications.

15. The system of claim 8, further comprising a directory service to maintain the one or more policies and wherein the policy agent receives the one or more policies from the directory service.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the directory service comprises the Active Directory service.

17. A machine-readable medium having machine executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:

reading one or more grid policies for a grid application;

determining a resource utilization; and

analyzing the resource utilization in accordance with the one or more grid polices to determine if the grid application is to be executed.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, further comprising obtaining one or more executable modules associated with the grid application.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more policies define a set of one or more grid applications for execution on a grid client.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more policies define one or more resource utilization constraints.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more policies define a priority for the grid application.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more policies define time based limitations.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more policies defines a resource proximity based constraint.