Abstract: Remotely administering a server, the server including non-volatile memory upon which is disposed one or more digital images representing the server, the server also including one or more components each of which includes non-volatile memory in which is disposed one or more digital images representing the component, where the server is connected for data communications to a management module, and remotely administering the server includes: retrieving, by the management module from the server, the digital images representing the server and the digital images representing the installed components; generating, by the management module with the digital images representing the server and the digital images representing the installed components, a graphical representation of the server with the installed components; and presenting, by the management module to a user through a GUI, the graphical representation of the server with the installed components.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for workload balancing among power switching components in a multiphase switching power supply, the power supply including one set of power switching components for each switching phase, where workload balancing includes: dropping one or more switching phases when output current demand on the power supply drops below a predetermined threshold, leaving at least one active switching phase; and rotating the at least one active switching phase among all sets of power switching components.

Abstract: Autoconfiguration of an IPv6 component in a segmented network including receiving an IPv6 packet; determining whether the received IPv6 packet is a router advertisement or a router solicitation; if the received IPv6 packet is a router advertisement, then retrieving through an out-of-band link a MAC address for the IPv6 component, removing a MAC address of a sending router, inserting in the packet instead an internal MAC address for forwarding packets to the IPv6 component, removing a multicast destination MAC address, inserting in the packet the destination MAC address of the IPv6 component, and forwarding the packet to the IPv6 component as a unicast message; if the received IPv6 packet is a router solicitation, then removing the MAC address of the sending IPv6 component, inserting in the packet instead an external MAC address for forwarding packets to the router, and forwarding the packet to the router as a multicast message.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption during execution of an application on a plurality of compute nodes that include: executing, by each compute node, an application, the application including power consumption directives corresponding to one or more portions of the application; identifying, by each compute node, the power consumption directives included within the application during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives; and reducing power, by each compute node, to one or more components of that compute node according to the identified power consumption directives during execution of the portions of the application corresponding to those identified power consumption directives.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products for deterministic real time stateful business application processing in an otherwise stateless service-oriented architecture (‘SOA’), the SOA including SOA services with each SOA service carrying out a processing step of the business application, each SOA service is a real time process executable on a real time operating system of a generally programmable computer and business application processing according to embodiments of the present invention includes: configuring each service of the SOA to record state information describing the state of the service upon completion of a processing step in the business application and provide the state information to a subsequent service, the state information including real time processing information; and executing the business application in the SOA in real time, including sending requests for data processing among the services, each such request comprising a specification of the state of the executing business application.

Abstract: A system for scheduling and transmitting messages is disclosed. The system stores a plurality of audio files in an audio database, generates a schedule of queued messages via the plurality of audio files, transmits the queued messages based on the schedule, and reconfigures the schedule based on a user interaction delivering the queued messages in accordance with the reconfigured schedule. A scheduled plurality of messages can be transmitted in a clear and professional manner. Additionally, “ad hoc” messages can be incorporated into the schedule without significantly disrupting the other messages.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing point to point data communications among compute nodes in a global combining network of a parallel computer that include: determining a class route identifier available for all of the nodes along a communications path from an origin node to a target node; configuring network hardware of each node along the communications path with routing instructions in dependence upon the available class route identifier and the network's topology; transmitting, by the origin node along the communications path, a network packet to the target node, including encoding the available class route identifier in the network packet; and routing, by the network hardware of each node along the communications path, the network packet to the target node in dependence upon the routing instructions for each node and the available class route identifier.

Abstract: A network on chip (‘NOC’) that includes integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controllers, each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and a network interface controller, a multiplicity of computer processors, each computer processor implementing a plurality of hardware threads of execution; and computer memory, the computer memory organized in pages and operatively coupled to one or more of the computer processors, the computer memory including a set associative cache, the cache comprising cache ways organized in sets, the cache being shared among the hardware threads of execution, each page of computer memory restricted for caching by one replacement vector of a class of replacement vectors to particular ways of the cache, each page of memory further restricted for caching by one or more bits of a replacement vector classification to particular sets of ways of the cache.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products for managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center are disclosed that include storing by a blade server management module (‘BSMM’), in non-volatile memory of a blade server, a parameter block, the parameter block including one or more virtual addresses for communications adapters of the blade server and one or more action identifiers, each action identifier representing a type of address modification; detecting, by a basic input-output system (‘BIOS’) module of the blade server upon powering on the blade server, the parameter block; and modifying, by the BIOS module of the blade server in dependence upon the one or more action identifiers of the parameter block, an address of at least one communications adapter of the blade server.

Abstract: A system and method in which authentication data, such as a password, which is sent to a server/firewall as part of an authentication request, for example a logon request, is received at the server/firewall in a plurality of messages at a plurality of logical ports from the user, thus improving protection against replay attacks. In one embodiment, a plurality of user authentication data parts is obtained from a remote user device as part of an authentication request, the plurality of user authentication data parts is assembled into user authentication data; the authenticity of the authentication request is checked using the user authentication data; and communication with the remote user device is enabled if the authentication request data is determined to be authentic.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for executing an application on a parallel computer having a plurality of nodes. Executing an application on a parallel computer includes: booting up a first subset of a plurality of nodes in a serial processing mode; booting up a second subset of the plurality of nodes in a parallel processing mode; profiling, prior to application execution, an application to identify serial segments of the application, parallel segments of the application, and application data utilized by each of the serial segments and the parallel segments; and executing the application on the plurality of nodes, including migrating, in dependence upon the profile for the application upon encountering the parallel segments during execution, only specific portions of the application and the application data from the nodes booted up in the serial processing mode to the nodes booted up in the parallel processing mode.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products for visually marking computing components within a computing system are disclosed that include: detecting that a particular computing component has failed, wherein the particular computing component has a physical surface that may be altered with the application of some physical stimulus; and applying a requisite physical stimulus to the physical surface such that the appearance of the physical service is altered, thereby visually identifying that the component has failed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for processing coupons by a self checkout system, where the self checkout system includes at least one self checkout station coupled to a server. In a first aspect, a self checkout system includes a server for managing the self checkout system and at least one self checkout station coupled to the server, where the self checkout station includes a scanner for scanning at least one item for purchase by a customer, a coupon reader for receiving a coupon from the customer, and a coupon manager. The coupon manager attempts to validate the coupon against the at least one item scanned by the customer, and if the coupon fails to validate, the coupon manager stores the coupon in a coupon pool at the server such that the stored coupon can be utilized at a subsequent sales transaction.

Abstract: Reducing remote reads of memory in a hybrid computing environment by maintaining remote memory values locally, the hybrid computing environment including a host computer and a plurality of accelerators, the host computer and the accelerators each having local memory shared remotely with the other, including writing to the shared memory of the host computer packets of data representing changes in accelerator memory values, incrementing, in local memory and in remote shared memory on the host computer, a counter value representing the total number of packets written to the host computer, reading by the host computer from the shared memory in the host computer the written data packets, moving the read data to application memory, and incrementing, in both local memory and in remote shared memory on the accelerator, a counter value representing the total number of packets read by the host computer.

Abstract: Link-level data communications carried out in a link-level data communications switching apparatus that includes modular link-level data communications switches; the switching apparatus is configured as two layers of link-level data communications switches; all the switches stacked by a stacking protocol that shares administrative configuration information among the switches and presents the switches as a single logical switch; the switching apparatus includes data communications ports coupling the switching apparatus to data communications networks and to service applications, each service application associated with a unique, link-level identifier; the switching apparatus includes rules governing the steering of packets among service applications and networks; including receiving, in the switching apparatus, packets directed to a destination network; and steering each packet among the service applications to the destination network in accordance with the rules, without using the link-level identifier of any

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclose for managing power consumption in a computer, the computer including random access memory (‘RAM’) implemented in two or more memory modules, the computer having installed upon it an operating system, the operating system including a power management module, that includes: freeing, by the operating system from one or more of the memory modules, at least the amount of allocated memory in one memory module; selecting, by the operating system, at least one memory module to power down; moving, by the operating system, content of the selected memory module to other memory modules; and powering, by the operating system, down the selected memory module.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer. Each compute node includes at least two processing cores. Each processing core has contribution data for the allreduce operation. Performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer includes: establishing one or more logical rings among the compute nodes, each logical ring including at least one processing core from each compute node; performing, for each logical ring, a global allreduce operation using the contribution data for the processing cores included in that logical ring, yielding a global allreduce result for each processing core included in that logical ring; and performing, for each compute node, a local allreduce operation using the global allreduce results for each processing core on that compute node.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation using shared memory that include: receiving, by at least one of a plurality of processing cores on a compute node, an instruction to perform an allreduce operation; establishing, by the core that received the instruction, a job status object for specifying a plurality of shared memory allreduce work units, the plurality of shared memory allreduce work units together performing the allreduce operation on the compute node; determining, by an available core on the compute node, a next shared memory allreduce work unit in the job status object; and performing, by that available core on the compute node, that next shared memory allreduce work unit.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for configuring an application for execution on a parallel computer that include: booting up a first subset of a plurality of nodes in a serial processing mode; booting up a second subset of the plurality of nodes in a parallel processing mode; profiling, prior to application deployment on the parallel computer, the application to identify the serial segments and the parallel segments of the application; and deploying the application for execution on the parallel computer in dependence upon the profile of the application and proximity within the data communications network of the nodes in the first subset relative to the nodes in the second subset.

Abstract: Formulating multimedia content of an on-line interview, including transmitting during the on-line interview, over a data communications network from a first client device to a second client device, a media stream of content from an interviewee; simultaneously with the transmitting of the media stream from the interviewee, recording the media stream from the interviewee in a media file on the first client device; recording during the on-line interview in a media file on the second client device, a media stream of content from an interviewer; transmitting after the on-line interview, from the first client device to the second client device, the media file containing the recorded media stream from the interviewee; and merging the recorded media files into a single media file on the second client device for transmission to viewers of the on-line interview.