MANAGING A SHARED POOL OF CONFIGURABLE COMPUTING RESOURCES WHICH USES A SET OF DYNAMICALLY-ASSIGNED RESOURCES

• US 20170054617A1
• Filed: 02/15/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cropper, Joseph W., Jensen, Stephanie L., Tenner, Jeffrey W.
• Application Number:
  US15/044,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20170054617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0686 Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0823 Errors, e.g. transmission errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1025 Dynamic adaptation of the criteria on which the server selection is based

Abstract

Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A set of resource assignment data is established. The set of resource assignment data indicates a first host of the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes a set of dynamically-assigned resources. An error event with respect to the first host is detected. In response to detecting the error event with respect to the first host, a determination is made to perform a resource action based on the set of resource assignment data. The resource action, which is related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources, is performed.

Claims

1. A system for managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources, the system comprising:

a memory having a set of computer readable computer instructions, and

a processor for executing the set of computer readable instructions, the set of computer readable instructions including;

establishing a set of resource assignment data which indicates a first host of the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes a set of dynamically-assigned resources;

detecting an error event with respect to the first host;

determining, in response to detecting the error event with respect to the first host and based on the set of resource assignment data, to perform a resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources; and

performing the resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the resource action includes reclaiming the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the resource action includes:

providing a notification to a user;

waiting for a temporal period in response to providing the notification to the user; and

reclaiming the set of dynamically-assigned resources in response to waiting for the temporal period.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising distributing the set of dynamically-assigned resources to a second host of the shared pool of configurable computing resources.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising activating, in response to distributing the set of dynamically-assigned resources to the second host, the set of dynamically-assigned resources on the second host.

6. The system of claim 4, further comprising recording, in the set of resource assignment data, an indication that the second host includes the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

determining to distribute the set of dynamically-assigned resources using a striping criterion; and

distributing the set of dynamically-assigned resources using the striping criterion.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

determining to distribute the set of dynamically-assigned resources using a packing criterion; and

distributing the set of dynamically-assigned resources using the packing criterion.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

determining to distribute the set of dynamically-assigned resources using a resource-utilization criterion; and

distributing the set of dynamically-assigned resources using the resource-utilization criterion.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising using a resource manager to:

establish the set of resource assignment data, detect the error event, determine to perform the resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources, and perform the resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein an x86 processor is absent with respect to the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein establishing the set of resource assignment data includes structuring a database which is coupled with a resource manager.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein detecting the error event includes using at least one of a heartbeat technology or a ping technology.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein determining, in response to detecting the error event with respect to the first host and based on the set of resource assignment data, to perform the resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources includes:

identifying, in the set of resource assignment data, an indication of the first host coupled with the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein reclaiming the set of dynamically-assigned resources includes disassociating the set of dynamically-assigned resources with respect to the first host.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

metering use of the set of dynamically-assigned resources; and

generating an invoice based on the metered use.

17. A computer program product for managing a shared pool of configurable computing resources, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

establishing a set of resource assignment data which indicates a first host of the shared pool of configurable computing resources includes a set of dynamically-assigned resources;

detecting an error event with respect to the first host;

determining, in response to detecting the error event with respect to the first host and based on the set of resource assignment data, to perform a resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources; and

performing the resource action related to the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the resource action includes reclaiming the set of dynamically-assigned resources.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the program instructions are stored in a computer readable storage medium in a data processing system, and wherein the program instructions were downloaded over a network from a remote data processing system.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the program instructions are stored in a computer readable storage medium in a server data processing system, and wherein the program instructions are downloaded over a network to a remote data processing system for use in a computer readable storage medium with the remote data processing system.