Patents by Inventor Hartmut E. PENNER

Hartmut E. PENNER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Performance-based reallocating of logical processing units to sockets of a computer system
    Patent number: 10942789
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of a multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket. The reassigning includes reassigning the logical processing unit based on the monitoring determining that a differential between a resource utilization rate of the socket and a resource utilization rate of the different socket exceeds a set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Benke, Hartmut E. Penner, Klaus Theurich
  • Performance-based reallocating of logical processing units to sockets of a computer system
    Patent number: 10592294
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of a multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket. The reassigning includes reassigning the logical processing unit based on the monitoring determining that a differential between a resource utilization rate of the socket and a resource utilization rate of the different socket exceeds a set threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Benke, Hartmut E. Penner, Klaus Theurich
  • PERFORMANCE-BASED REALLOCATING OF LOGICAL PROCESSING UNITS TO SOCKETS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190361752
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of a multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket. The reassigning includes reassigning the logical processing unit based on the monitoring determining that a differential between a resource utilization rate of the socket and a resource utilization rate of the different socket exceeds a set threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Oliver BENKE, Hartmut E. PENNER, Klaus THEURICH
  • Performance-based reallocating of logical processing units to sockets of a computer system
    Patent number: 10095550
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit within the computer system. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code of the multiple logical processing units, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Benke, Hartmut E. Penner, Klaus Theurich
  • PERFORMANCE-BASED REALLOCATING OF LOGICAL PROCESSING UNITS TO SOCKETS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180225154
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of a multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket. The reassigning includes reassigning the logical processing unit based on the monitoring determining that a differential between a resource utilization rate of the socket and a resource utilization rate of the different socket exceeds a set threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Oliver BENKE, Hartmut E. PENNER, Klaus THEURICH
  • PERFORMANCE-BASED REALLOCATING OF LOGICAL PROCESSING UNITS TO SOCKETS OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180107521
    Abstract: A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit within the computer system. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code of the multiple logical processing units, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Oliver BENKE, Hartmut E. PENNER, Klaus THEURICH