Managing Sensor and Actuator Data for a Processor and Service Processor Located on a Common Socket

• US 20110246748A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hilland, Jeffrey R., V, Prashanth, KS, Sandeep, Kannan, Vidhya, Talwar, Vanish
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 712/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

Illustrated is a system and method that includes a processor and service processor co-located on a common socket, the service processor to aggregate data from a distributed network of additional service processors and processors both of which are co-located on an additional common socket. The system and method also includes a first sensor to record the data from the processor. The system and method also includes a second sensor to record the data from a software stack. The system and method further includes a registry to store the data.

Claims

2-1. The computer system of claim 1, further comprising an internal discovery service that resides as part of a service processor helper, the internal discovery service to identify software associated with the software stack.

9. A computer implemented method comprising:

transmitting a peer discovery query to identify at least one processor and service processor co-located on a common socket, the processor and the service processor including at least one data sensor;

receiving a response to the peer discovery query, the response identifying the at least one data sensor and the processor and the service processor co-located on the common socket; and

updating a registry with the response, the registry accessible by the processor and service processor co-located on the common socket.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an additional peer discovery query seeking sensor data related to an additional processor and service processor co-located on an additional common socket; and

routing the additional peer discovery query to the additional processor and service processor co-located on the additional common socket.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein transmitting includes at least one of broadcasting, multicasting, or unicasting.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein the peer includes at least one of the additional processor and service processor co-located on an additional common socket, the at least one of the additional processor and service processor are part of a distributed network.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 9, wherein the at least one data sensor records data for either the processor or a software stack residing on the processor.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 9, further comprising generating an additional peer discovery query seeking sensor data related to an additional processor and service processor co-located on an additional common socket, the peer discovery query generated using a Common Information Model (CIM) namespace.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 9, further comprising routing the peer discovery query to the additional processor and service processor co-located on an additional common socket using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT).

16. A computer implemented method comprising:

recording sensor data for a processor and associated software stack, the processor and a service processor co-located on a common socket;

aggregating the sensor data for a processor and the associated software stack into a registry; and

displaying the aggregated sensor data in console through accessing the registry via the service processor.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 16, further comprising storing the sensor data in the registry using a service processor helper that resides on the processor.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 17, wherein the service processor helper resides as part of an operating system, a Dom0, or a hypervisor.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 16, wherein the sensor data includes data relating to at least one of power usage, temperature, memory usage, processor cycles, a software application name, memory allocation, or software execution time.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 16, wherein the console includes at least one of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), or a Command Line Interface (CLI).