Abstract: Identifying computer system markers to understand computer system performance, in one aspect, may comprise identifying a set of executions of applications indicative of computer performance based on first values associated with a first set of artifacts in the set of executions. Two subsets of executions from said identified set of executions are selected based on second values associated with a second set of artifacts in the set of executions. One or more markers are identified by determining one or more third set of artifacts from the two subsets of executions that have an associated third value that is different in a first of the two subsets from a second of the two subsets of executions according to a criterion.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a large server storage frame including a base, a ceiling and supports that are supportive of the ceiling above the base and separable from one another by a variable distance, first and second brackets disposable at variable vertical positions along first and second ones of the supports, respectively, and a turnbuckle assembly including an extendible member and first and second connectors connected to first and second ends of the extendible member, respectively. The first and second connectors are rotatably connectable to the first and second brackets, respectively, and the extendible member is extendible such that the first and second connectors reach the first and second brackets with the first and second brackets respectively disposed at the variable vertical positions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing gifts is disclosed. A computer system receives information about a gift from a recipient of the gift. In response to receiving the information about the gift, the computer system generates an acknowledgment of the gift. The computer system then sends the acknowledgment of the gift to a sender of the gift.

Abstract: An electronic module is provided in which a chip is disposed over a substrate and electrically connected to the substrate by a plurality of electrical connect structures disposed between the chip and the substrate. A heat distributor, fabricated of a thermally conductive material, is disposed between the chip and the substrate and sized to extend beyond an edge of the chip to facilitate conduction of heat laterally out from between the chip and substrate. The heat distributor includes openings sized and positioned to allow the electrical connect structures to pass through the heat distributor without electrically contacting the heat distributor. The heat distributor is electrically isolated from the electrical connect structures, the chip and the substrate. In one implementation, the heat distributor physically contacts a thermally conductive enclosure of the electronic module to facilitate conduction of heat from between the chip and substrate to the enclosure.

Abstract: A system comprises a scheduling unit for scheduling jobs to resources, and a library unit comprising a machine map of the system and a global status map of interconnections of resources. A monitoring unit generates status information signals for the resources. The library unit receives the signals and determines a free map of resources to execute the job to be scheduled, the free map indicating the interconnection of resources to which the job in a current scheduling cycle can be scheduled and determined by removing from the machine map resources which fall within the global status map and re-introducing resources in the global status map which the scheduling unit has indicated the job being scheduled can be scheduled to. The monitoring unit dispatches a job to the resources in the free map which match the resource mapping requirements of the job and fall within the free map.

Abstract: Branch prediction for indirect jumps, including: receiving, by a branch prediction module, a branch address for each of a plurality of executed branch instructions; receiving, by the branch prediction module, an instruction address of a current branch instruction; creating, by the branch prediction module, an execution path identifier in dependence upon the branch address for each of the plurality of executed branch instructions and the instruction address of the current branch instruction; and searching, by the branch prediction module, a branch prediction table for an entry that matches the execution path identifier.

Abstract: Controlling a plurality of serial peripheral interface (‘SPI’) peripherals using a single chip select in a computing system, the computing system including an SPI master, a first SPI peripheral, and a second SPI peripheral, wherein the first SPI peripheral is operatively coupled to the second SPI peripheral, including: receiving, by the first SPI peripheral, a signal from the SPI master; determining, by the first SPI peripheral, whether the first SPI peripheral is a primary SPI peripheral or a backup SPI peripheral; responsive to determining that the first SPI peripheral is the backup SPI peripheral, transmitting, by the first SPI peripheral to the second SPI peripheral, the signal; and responsive to determining that the first SPI peripheral is the primary SPI peripheral: servicing, by the first SPI peripheral, an instruction contained in the signal; and transmitting, by the first SPI peripheral to the second SPI peripheral, a response signal.

Abstract: Coordinating data sharing among applications in mobile devices, in one aspect, may include a shared data manager application on a mobile device that manages data trade requirements of a plurality of mobile applications, and permission grants or denials to reads and writes of data managed by the shared data manager and used by the plurality of mobile applications.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention directed to a method is associated with data content, comprising discrete data portions including first data and second data portions separated from each other in the data content. A copy operation is implemented on data portions so that at least some of the data portions are each copied to a buffer, which include the first and second data portions. A paste operation is carried out to present each of the copied data portions as an input for an output data selection task. Prespecified criteria is used in the output data selection task to select a number of the copied data portions to be selected data for a given purpose, the selected number of copied data portions being less than data portions presented by the paste operation, and the selected copied data portions including the first and second data portions.

Abstract: A security information handling system (IHS) receives a request to navigate to a webpage, such as a link, from a user IHS. A security IHS link analysis tool analyzes the link and determines if the link contains sensitive content. The security IHS link analysis tool transmits a network selection message to the user IHS indicating which network the user IHS should utilize based upon the content of the link.

Abstract: A method detects active power dissipation in an integrated circuit. The method includes receiving a hardware design for the integrated circuit having one or more clock domains, wherein the hardware design comprises a local clock buffer for a clock domain, wherein the local clock buffer is configured to receive a clock signal and an actuation signal. The method includes adding instrumentation logic to the design for the clock domain, wherein the instrumentation logic is configured to compare a first value of the actuation signal determined at a beginning point of a test period to a second value of the actuation signal determined at a time when the clock domain is in an idle condition. The method includes detecting the clock domain includes unintended active power dissipation, in response to the first value of the actuation signal not being equal to the second value of the actuation signal.

Abstract: A system and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries on a consumer's machine and, more particularly, to a system and method of sensing (discovering) service needs on a consumer's machine using a resident Daemon, and responding to the service discoveries using an extension of UDDI. The method comprises receiving a keyword from a local machine, locating a service associated with the keyword, and notifying the local machine about the service that matches the keyword.

Abstract: A mobile communication device includes a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature and a control unit configured to determine whether a change in the sensed temperature relative to a previously-sensed temperature corresponds to a critical time range. The control unit is also configured to store data in a data storage unit when it is determined that the change in the sensed temperature corresponds to the critical time range.

Abstract: A method includes monitoring a plurality of HyperSwap sessions between one or more storage systems located at a first location and one or more storage systems located at a second location, wherein at least one of the one or more storage systems located at the first location and at the second location are designated as a primary storage system. The method includes detecting an error event and freezing communications between the storage systems located at the first location and the second location in response to the error event. The method also includes designating either the first location or the second location as a preferred location and modifying the designation of all of storage systems at the preferred location to be primary storage systems in response to the error event.

Abstract: Disclosed is a program for pre-fetching resources. A computer, communicatively coupled to a plurality of client computers and a server computer, identifies a resource, through an examination of one or more HTTP server logs, that is cached on at least one of the plurality of client computers and has been validated by the server computer. The computer determines to pre-fetch the resource based on one or more predefined rules, at least one of the predefined rules including a threshold number of responses validating the resource that must be received by the computer. The computer pre-fetches and caches the resource from the server computer. The computer receives a request for the resource from a client computer that does not have the resource cached. The computer validates resource cached locally and sends the resource to the client computer from the local cache on the computer.

Abstract: Methods of bit manipulation within a computer processor are disclosed. Improved flexibility in bit manipulation proves helpful in computing elementary functions critical to the performance of many programs and for other applications. In one embodiment, a unit of input data is shifted/rotated and multiple non-contiguous bit fields from the unit of input data are inserted in an output register. In another embodiment, one of two units of input data is optionally shifted or rotated, the two units of input data are partitioned into a plurality of bit fields, bitwise operations are performed on each bit field, and pairs of bit fields are combined with either an AND or an OR bitwise operation. Embodiments are also disclosed to simultaneously perform these processes on multiple units and pairs of units of input data in a Single Input, Multiple Data processing environment capable of performing logical operations on floating point data.

Abstract: Re-arranging data handling in a computer-implemented system that comprises a plurality of existing physical entities. At least one reliability rating is assigned to each of various existing physical entities of the computer-implemented system; and in response to change. Reverse predictive failure analysis uses the assigned reliability ratings to determine cumulative reliability rating(s) for at least one arrangement of the system. Data handling is re-arranged with respect to at least a portion of the existing computer-implemented system to provide a designated cumulative reliability rating.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method of forming contacts to source and drain regions in a FET device includes the following steps. A patternable dielectric is deposited onto the device so as to surround each of the source and drain regions. The patternable dielectric is exposed to cross-link portions of the patternable dielectric that surround the source and drain regions. Uncross-linked portions of the patternable dielectric are selectively removed relative to the cross-linked portions of the patternable dielectric, wherein the cross-linked portions of the patternable dielectric form dummy contacts that surround the source and drain regions. A planarizing dielectric is deposited onto the device around the dummy contacts. The dummy contacts are selectively removed to form vias in the planarizing dielectric which are then filled with a metal(s) so as to form replacement contacts that surround the source and drain regions.

Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for granting and revoking supplemental memory allocation requests. Supplemental memory allocations of memory resources are granted to applications following initial memory allocations of the memory resources to the applications. In response to determining that available memory resources have fallen below an availability threshold, determining a weighting factor for each supplemental memory allocation based on at least one of an amount of the memory resources allocated to the supplemental memory allocation and a measured duration during which the memory resources have been allocated. At least one of the supplemental memory allocations is selected to revoke based on the determined weighting factors of the supplemental memory allocations.

Abstract: Methods of bit manipulation within a computer processor are disclosed. Improved flexibility in bit manipulation proves helpful in computing elementary functions critical to the performance of many programs and for other applications. In one embodiment, a unit of input data is shifted/rotated and multiple non-contiguous bit fields from the unit of input data are inserted in an output register. In another embodiment, one of two units of input data is optionally shifted or rotated, the two units of input data are partitioned into a plurality of bit fields, bitwise operations are performed on each bit field, and pairs of bit fields are combined with either an AND or an OR bitwise operation. Embodiments are also disclosed to simultaneously perform these processes on multiple units and pairs of units of input data in a Single Input, Multiple Data processing environment capable of performing logical operations on floating point data.