SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTION OF CALCULATIONS TO CLOUD-BASED COMPUTATION RESOURCES

• US 20100057831A1
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Williamson, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 9,910,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/549 Remote execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the promotion of calculations to cloud-based computation resources. One or more applications, such as spreadsheet applications, can prepare the calculation of a relatively large-scale computation, such as running statistical reports on large (e.g., greater than 1000 by 1000 cell) spreadsheets or other data objects. If the pending calculation is determined to be greater than a computation threshold for instance in computation intensity or data size, a computation request can be sent to a promotion engine. The promotion engine can identify a set of computation resources located in a cloud or other network and transmit the data request and subject data to the set of computation resources, which afford greater computation speed than the local machine hosting the requesting application. A set of results is returned from the cloud to the requesting application, thereby creating higher bandwidth and faster calculation times for the user.

Claims

1. A method of generating calculations, comprising:

receiving a computation request and data from at least one application;

transmitting the computation request and the data to a set of remote computation resources via a promotion engine; and

generating a set of results based on calculations performed on the data by the set of remote computation resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of remote computation resources comprises at least one of a set of cloud-based computation resources and a set of database server resources.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one application comprises at least one of a spreadsheet application, a database application, a statistical application, and a modeling application.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the at least one application has reached a computation threshold to trigger the computation request.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the computation threshold comprises at least one of a computational intensity threshold and a data size threshold.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the set of results to the at least one application.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising storing the set of results to a data store.

8. A system, comprising:

an interface to at least one application; and

a promotion engine, communicating with the interface, the promotion engine being configured to—

receive a computation request and data from the at least one application,

transmit the computation request and the data to a set of remote computation resources, and

generate a set of results based on calculations performed on the data by the set of remote computation resources.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of remote computation resources comprises at least one of a set of cloud-based computation resources and a set of database server resources.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one application comprises at least one of a spreadsheet application, a database application, a statistical application, and a modeling application.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising determining whether the at least one application has reached a computation threshold to trigger the computation request.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the computation threshold comprises at least one of a computational intensity threshold and a data size threshold.

13. The system of claim 8, further comprising transmitting the set of results to the at least one application.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising storing the set of results to a data store.

15. A data store, the data store storing a set of calculation results generated via remote computation resources, the set of results being generated by a method comprising:

receiving a computation request and data from at least one application;

transmitting the computation request and the data to a set of remote computation resources via a promotion engine;

generating a set of results based on calculations performed on the data by the set of remote computation resources; and

storing the set of results to the data store.

16. The data store of claim 15, wherein the set of remote computation resources comprises at least one of a set of cloud-based computation resources and a set of database server resources.

17. The data store of claim 15, wherein the at least one application comprises at least one of a spreadsheet application, a database application, a statistical application, and a modeling application.

18. The data store of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining whether the at least one application has reached a computation threshold to trigger the computation request.

19. The data store of claim 18, wherein the computation threshold comprises at least one of a computational intensity threshold and a data size threshold.

20. The data store of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises transmitting the set of results to the at least one application.

21. The data store of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises storing the set of results to a data store.