Resource brokering method, resource brokering apparatus, and computer product

• US 20070266083A1
• Filed: 01/25/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shimizu, Toshihiro, Kobashi, Hiromichi, Shigeta, Soichi, Ueda, Haruyasu
• Application Number:
  US11/698,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20070266083A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1012 based on compliance of requirements or conditions with available server resources

Abstract

In a resource brokering apparatus, a setting unit sets a value of each service, and a detecting unit detects whether resource nodes are insufficient when a request for one service is received by a receiving unit. When it is insufficient, a determining unit determines whether a first value of a resource node used for one service is higher than a second value of the resource node which is currently used for another service. If the first value is larger than the second value, the other service is switched to the one service.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a resource brokering program causing a computer to execute:

setting, for each of a plurality of services, a value of resource nodes relatively to a predetermined standard, the resource nodes used for the services;

accepting a request for one service among the services;

detecting whether a resource node to be used for the one service is insufficient;

determining, when it is detected that the resource node is insufficient at the detecting, whether the value of the resource node used for the one service is higher than a value of a resource node used for a service other than the one service; and

switching the resource node to be used for the one service to the resource node that has been used for the other service, based on a result of determination at the determining.

2. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the setting includes setting the value of the resource node used for the other service so as to vary depending on a condition of the resource node.

3. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes an execution time of the resource node.

4. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes a processing performance of the resource node.

5. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes a use frequency of the resource node.

6. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes a location of the resource node.

7. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes a specified execution time of the resource node.

8. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 7, wherein the condition includes whether any one of interruption and termination of the resource node is allowed within the specified execution time.

9. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein

the condition includes a completion rate of a set of jobs related to the other service, the completion rate indicative of a rate of jobs whose execution has been completed among the jobs, and

the setting includes setting the value so that the value of a resource node for which jobs are not yet completed to be high based on the completion rate.

10. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the condition includes a switching frequency of the resource node.

11. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the switching includes switching to a resource node having a lowest value among resource nodes used for the other service.

12. A resource brokering apparatus comprising:

a setting unit that sets, for each of a plurality of services, a value of resource nodes relatively to a predetermined standard, the resource nodes used for the services;

an accepting unit that accepts a request for one service among the services;

a detecting unit that detects whether a resource node to be used for the one service is insufficient;

a determining unit that determines, when it is detected that the resource node is insufficient by the detecting unit, whether the value of the resource node used for the one service is higher than a value of a resource node used for a service other than the one service; and

a switching unit that switches the resource node to be used for the one service to the resource node that has been used for the other service, based on a result of determination by the determining unit.

13. The resource brokering apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the setting includes setting the value of the resource node used for the other service so as to vary depending on a condition of the resource node.

14. The resource brokering apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the switching includes switching to a resource node having a lowest value among resource nodes used for the other service.

15. A resource brokering method comprising:

setting, for each of a plurality of services, a value of resource nodes relatively to a predetermined standard, the resource nodes used for the services;

accepting a request for one service among the services;

detecting whether a resource node to be used for the one service is insufficient;

determining, when it is detected that the resource node is insufficient at the detecting, whether the value of the resource node used for the one service is higher than a value of a resource node used for a service other than the one service; and

switching the resource node to be used for the one service to the resource node that has been used for the other service, based on a result of determination at the determining.

16. The resource brokering method according to claim 15, wherein the setting includes setting the value of the resource node used for the other service so as to vary depending on a condition of the resource node.

17. The resource brokering method according to claim 15, wherein the switching includes switching to a resource node having a lowest value among resource nodes used for the other service.