Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing an integrated user interface for a variety of operating systems are provided. When a user request execution of an application included in a second operating system an application of a first operating system is in the foreground of a display, the apparatus switches the application included in the second operating system to the foreground of the display without the need for a separate window. One of a server operating system and client operating systems may be set as a main domain that provides an integrated graphic user interface with respect to applications executed on a plurality of operating systems. The operating systems not set to the main domain may be set as sub-domains each of which provides application information to the main domain in response to a request from the main domain.

Abstract: Resource provisioning to a process in a distributed computing system, such as a cloud computing system. An instruction to provision a resource is received. Portions of the resource are provisioned to the process as they become available, and prior to all portions becoming available, based on determining that the provisioning speed is greater than or equal to the use speed for the resource. If the use speed is faster, it may be actively slowed down.

Abstract: Resource provisioning to a process in a distributed computing system, such as a cloud computing system. An instruction to provision a resource is received. Portions of the resource are provisioned to the process as they become available, and prior to all portions becoming available, based on determining that the provisioning speed is greater than or equal to the use speed for the resource. If the use speed is faster, it may be actively slowed down.

Abstract: A cloud marketplace system can be configured to communicate with multiple cloud computing environments in order to ascertain the details for the resources and services provided by the cloud computing environments for optimizing resources utilized by virtual machines. The cloud marketplace system can be configured to determine the resource and service data for the cloud computing environments and select a set of resource servers for instantiating the virtual machines based specifications of the virtual machines and parameters of the instantiation. The cloud marketplace system can be configured to periodically monitor the cloud's resources and migrate the virtual machines if resources become available that more closely match the parameters of the virtual machines.

Abstract: A software component for automated processing of multi-usage data, implementing functions requiring various levels of security or limits of responsibility. The software component includes a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine being adapted for executing at least one function requiring a level of security or a limit of responsibility which is predetermined and a hypervisor adapted for controlling execution of the plurality of virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for using per task time slice information to improve dynamic performance state selection are described. In one embodiment, a new performance state is selected for a process based on one or more previous execution time slice values of the process. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to generating automated web task procedures from an analysis of web history logs. One aspect of the invention concerns a method that comprises identifying sequences of related web actions from a web log, grouping each set of similar web actions into an action class, and mapping the sequences of related web actions into sequences of action classes. The method further clusters each group of similar sequences of action classes into a cluster, wherein relationships among the action classes in the cluster are represented by a state machine, and generates automated web task procedures from the state machine.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor with first and second groups of cores. The second group can be of a different instruction set architecture (ISA) than the first group or of the same ISA set but having different power and performance support level, and is transparent to an operating system (OS). The processor further includes a migration unit that handles migration requests for a number of different scenarios and causes a context switch to dynamically migrate a process from the second core to a first core of the first group. This dynamic hardware-based context switch can be transparent to the OS. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of discussion herein, assume that a virtual machine (VM) represents each of these environments. In one particular embodiment, a systems management partition (SMP) is created inside the VM to provide a persistent and resilient storage for management information (e.g., logical and physical VM metadata). The SMP can also be used as a staging area for installing additional content or agentry on the VM when the VM is executed. Remote storage of management information can also be used. The VM management information can then be made available for pre-execution processing, including policy-based compliance testing.

Abstract: Methods and devices for determining load on a computing device involve scheduling at least one idle thread for execution during a first sleep time of a predefined reference interval and, determining a natural load at a lapse of the first sleep time. If the natural load equals or exceeds a fixed load requirement for the predefined reference interval, a second sleep time is scheduled for the remainder of the predefined reference interval. If, instead, the natural load is less than the fixed load requirement and a fixed load time for the fixed load requirement equals the remainder of the predefined reference interval, an artificial load is generated for the remainder of the predefined reference interval.

Abstract: A first and second data handling systems provides for shared resources in a docked mobile environment. The first data handling system maintains a set of execution tasks within the first data handling system having a system dock interface to physically couple to the second data handling system. The first data handling system assigns a task to be executed by the second data handling system while the two systems are physically coupled.

Abstract: Sharing resources in a docked mobile environment comprises maintaining a set of execution tasks within a first data handling system having a system dock interface to physically couple to a second data handling system and assigning a task to be executed by the second data handling system while the two systems are physically coupled. The described method further comprises detecting a physical decoupling of the first and second data handling systems and displaying an execution result of the task via a first display element of the first data handling system in response to such a detection.

Abstract: Among other disclosed subject matter, a system includes a secure execution domain configured to execute trusted processes. The system also includes a hardware virtualization component in the secure execution domain and configured to implement a virtual machine. The virtual machine is a hardware virtualization of a data processing apparatus and includes a shared virtual memory device and a guest software application coupled to the shared virtual memory device. The system also includes a trusted process in the secure execution domain, separate from the virtual machine and coupled to the shared virtual memory device. The trusted process is configured to communicate with the guest software application through the shared virtual memory device. Communication with the guest software application includes secure communication.

Abstract: A system and method of parallelizing programs assigns write tokens and read tokens to data objects accessed by computational operations. During run time, the write sets and read sets for computational operations are resolved and the computational operations executed only after they have obtained the necessary tokens for data objects corresponding to the resolved write and read sets. A data object may have unlimited read tokens but only a single write token and the write token may be released only if no read tokens are outstanding. Data objects provide a wait list which serves as an ordered queue for computational operations waiting for tokens.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for scheduling homogeneous workloads including batch jobs, and heterogeneous workloads including batch and dedicated jobs, with run-time elasticity wherein resource requirements for a given job can change during run-time execution of the job.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for scheduling homogeneous workloads including batch jobs, and heterogeneous workloads including batch and dedicated jobs, with run-time elasticity wherein resource requirements for a given job can change during run-time execution of the job.

Abstract: A method of controlling resource consumption of running processes, sub processes and/or threads (such as a database or an application transaction) in a computerized system, in which resources consumed by less important processes are freed by periodically suspending (by causing them to demand less resources) and resuming these processes transparently to other entities of the computerized system and externally to the OS without intervention in its inherent resource allocation mechanism and allowing the OS of the computerized system to allocate the free resources to other running processes.

Abstract: A synchronization method is executed by a multi-core processor system. The synchronization method includes registering based on a synchronous command issued from a first CPU, CPUs to be synchronized and a count of the CPUs into a specific table; counting by each of the CPUs and based on a synchronous signal from the first CPU, an arrival count for a synchronous point, and creating by each of the CPUs, a second shared memory area that is a duplication of a first shared memory area accessed by processes executed by the CPUs; and comparing the first shared memory area and the second shared memory area when the arrival count becomes equal to the count of the CPUs, and based on a result of the comparison, judging the processes executed by the CPUs.

Abstract: A system and method may include identifying a virtual machine setting associated with a virtual machine, obtaining system specification information associated with a computer, and generating validation information based on the system specification information and the virtual machine setting. The system and method may further include determining whether to deploy the virtual machine to the computer based on the validation information.

Abstract: An entertainment device includes a general-purpose signal processor made up of an assembly of component-processors, each of which can operate in parallel under operating environments independent of others component-processors. A management processor controls a cross bar so as to change the operating environments of the respective component-processors in accordance with a demand for signal processing which is given from a CPU, and to change over any one of the component-processors which receives a signal to be processed which is inputted through the cross bar or outputs a processed signal in accordance with the demand for signal processing.