METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION PROFILING FOR PURPOSES OF DEFINING RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS

• US 20080222288A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Rodriguez, Peter P.
• Granted Patent: US 8,918,790 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Disclosed are a method of and system for profiling a computer program. The method comprises the steps of using a utility application to execute the computer program; and on the basis of said execution of the computer program, identifying specific performance requirements of the computer program. A profile of the computer program is determined from said identified performance requirements; and based on said determined profile, resources for the computer program are selected from a grid of computer services.

Claims

1. A method of profiling a computer program, comprising the steps of:

using a utility application to execute the computer program;

on the basis of said execution of the computer program, identifying specific performance requirements of the computer program;

determining a profile of the computer program from said identified performance requirements; and

based on said determined profile, selecting resources for the computer program from a grid of computer services.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said specific performance requirements are selected from the group including:

memory allocation requirements, I/O intensiveness, network usage, CPU, and math operation.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of selecting resources includes the steps of:

presenting selected parameters of the computer program to an administrator; and

said administrator having an option to override any particular selection of resources.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the step of selecting resources includes the further step of said administrator defining a relative priority for the distribution of resources from the grid.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of using the utility application includes the step of using the utility application to build a configuration file for the computer program.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the computer program has an associated configuration file that provides application specific data needed to execute the application using services from the grid.

7. A system for profiling a computer program, comprising:

a utility application to execute the computer program;

means, acting on the basis of said execution of the computer program, for identifying specific performance requirements of the computer program;

means for determining a profile of the computer program from said identified performance requirements; and

means using said determined profile, to select resources for the computer program from a grid of computer services.

8. A system according to claim 7, wherein said specific performance requirements are selected from the group including:

memory allocation requirements, I/O intensiveness, network usage, CPU, and math operation.

9. A system according to claim 7, wherein the means to select resources includes:

means for presenting selected parameters of the computer program to an administrator; and

means providing said administrator with an option to override any particular selection of resources.

10. A system according to claim 9, wherein the means to select resources further includes means to enable said administrator to define a relative priority for the distribution of resources from the grid.

11. A system according to claim 7, wherein the utility application includes means to build a configuration file for the computer program.

12. A system according to claim 7, wherein the computer program has an associated configuration file that provides application specific data needed to execute the application using services from the grid.

13. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for profiling a computer program, said method steps comprising:

using a utility application to execute the computer program;

on the basis of said execution of the computer program, identifying specific performance requirements of the computer program;

determining a profile of the computer program from said identified performance requirements; and

based on said determined profile, selecting resources for the computer program from a grid of computer services.

14. A program storage device according to claim 13, wherein said specific performance requirements are selected from the group including:

memory allocation requirements, I/O intensiveness, network usage, CPU, and math operation.

15. A program storage device according to claim 13, wherein the step of selecting resources includes the steps of:

presenting selected parameters of the computer program to an administrator; and

said administrator having an option to override any particular selection of resources.

16. A program storage device according to claim 15, wherein the step of selecting resources includes the further step of said administrator defining a relative priority for the distribution of resources from the grid.

17. A program storage device according to claim 13, wherein the step of using the utility application includes the step of using the utility application to build a configuration file for the computer program.